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"Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril"
Lucretius, Poet
"War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men"
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat
"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it is simply a brutality"
James A. Garfield, President
"Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: Not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit"
Davy Crockett, Explorer
"It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult"
Craig Bruce, Writer
"I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to Western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'"
Craig Bruce, Writer
"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living"
Omar N. Bradley, Soldier
"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
"Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up"
Huey Newton, Activist
"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know"
John Le Carre, Author
"That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into"
Ed Bradley, Journalist
"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead"
John Le Carre, Author
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity"
John Le Carre, Author
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative"
Golda Meir, Leader
"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore"
Golda Meir, Leader
"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go"
Golda Meir, Leader
"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight"
Golda Meir, Leader
"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse"
Golda Meir, Leader
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man"
Alfred Adler, Psychologist
"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy"
Alfred Adler, Psychologist
"Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together"
Noel Coward, Playwright
"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... Money, for instance, or war"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors"
Robert E. Lee, General
"This war is not about slavery"
Robert E. Lee, General
"See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college"
Michelle Obama, First Lady
"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it"
Robert E. Lee, General
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
"Imagine a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children"
Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort, as war itself is worse than peace"
Herodotus, Historian
"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war"
Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction"
Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false"
Jimmy Carter, President
"Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem"
Washington Irving, Writer
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