Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"It's a war zone. Terrible things happen"

Eason Jordan, Journalist

"The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe"

Edward Grey, Politician

"It is only natural that, for any statesman at the helm of any government, the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance"

Eisaku Sato, Politician

"I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and yet you continue to vote to fund the war, because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why? The conscript answers only that drafting happens often"

Du Fu, Poet

"Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward"

John Amery, Politician

"Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism, we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians"

Daniel Craig, Actor

"Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth"

Curt Siodmak, Novelist

"We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future"

Boris Trajkovski, Statesman

"And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"The chief incalculable in war is the human will"

B. H. Liddell Hart, Historian

"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't"

Jimmy Doolittle, Aviator

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"It's best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish"

Lao Tzu, Author

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"When you are winning a war, almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power, and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"An army marches on its stomach"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed"

Cicero, Philosopher

"In time of war, the laws are silent"

Cicero, Philosopher

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