Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species"

Anthony Storr, Author

"Also, General Zinni, who commanded Central Command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003"

William Odom, Soldier

"I find war detestable, but those who praise it without participating in it even more so"

Romain Rolland, Novelist

"Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind"

Robert Fisk, Journalist

"There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!"

William Pitt, Leader

"What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the Cold War was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest"

Earl Browder, Activist

"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily, in the case of both the USA and the USSR, the growth of the productive forces"

Earl Browder, Activist

"In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one Allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty"

William Odom, Soldier

"Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force"

Lord North, Statesman

"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people"

Marjane Satrapi, Artist

"Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler"

Milos Forman, Director

"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian"

William Gilmore Simms, Novelist

"Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security"

Richard Burr, Politician

"On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"Killing is the payoff of war"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on"

Hanoi Hannah, Celebrity

"And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective, I believe"

Hanoi Hannah, Celebrity

"Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; one kind with his fathers"

Taliesin, Poet

"If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple, but is, in fact, a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border"

Harrison Salisbury, Journalist

"In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now"

Bill Pascrell, Politician

"There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities"

Arlen Specter, Politician

"In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England, you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself"

Ron Paul, Politician

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides"

Bill Luther, Politician

"I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange"

Charles Guggenheim, Director

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