Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"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

"In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war"

Pierre Laval, Politician

"Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war"

Howard Finster, Artist

"If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations"

Ehud Barak, Statesman

"In the account book of the Great War, the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not"

Paul von Hindenburg, President

"While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice"

Gresham Barrett, Politician

"I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad"

John Pomfret

"My greetings to you, my Germany"

Alfred Jodl, Soldier

"We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the Nazism, which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan"

Michael Mullen, Soldier

"Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!"

Errol Morris, Director

"General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler"

Kurt Student, Soldier

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let's go inland and be killed"

Norman Cota, Soldier

"This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice"

Victor Davis Hanson, Historian

"We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels"

Yoweri Museveni, Politician

"War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else"

Smedley Butler, Soldier

"We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war"

William J. Perry, Politician

"When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus"

Lactantius, Author

"Americans rightly asked: if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed"

Hulagu Khan, Leader

"World War II was a decisive time in our history, and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war"

Lane Evans, Politician

"Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important and legal means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda"

John Yoo, Educator

"We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be"

Aslan Maskhadov, Politician

"We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas, so we never have to fight it here at home"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror, which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children"

John Gibbon, Soldier

"Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people"

Saxby Chambliss, Politician

"The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism"

Frank Lautenberg, Politician

"My pistols, however, I always kept by me"

Jesse James, Criminal

"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community"

Dominique de Villepin, Diplomat

"Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do"

Henry Waxman, Politician

"I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils"

McGeorge Bundy, Celebrity

"The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it"

Peter King, Politician

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