Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations, and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"Germany must be strong and united if it is to survive in the face of its enemies"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"The English are my enemies, my deadly enemies. They will do everything in their power to destroy me and my country"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"I am the supreme warlord; I do not wage war in order to achieve definite military objectives, but to destroy the enemy"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican"

Sam Houston, Politician

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"I am against intervention by a foreign power against us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way, but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war, it seems more like astrology"

Rebecca West, Author

"Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom, and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men"

Nguyen Van Thieu, Statesman

"Up until the War of the Roses, there had been continual conflict in England"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done, but because of who we are, and because of the values that we hold in common"

John Howard, Statesman

"History has been the history of warfare"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"Accurst be he that first invented war!"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

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