Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"Accursed be he that first invented war!"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"No battle is worth fighting except the last one"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand"

Ferdowsi, Poet

"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger"

Thucydides, Historian

"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Politics is the womb in which war develops"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is the province of danger"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter, and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power"

Al Gore, Vice President

"I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow, the victors sued for peace, and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender"

Abba Eban, Diplomat

"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"The price we pay as the EU, as NATO, is the price we can measure in currency, in money. The price they pay is measured in lives lost every day. So, we should stop complaining and step up to provide support, full stop"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Haiti looks like a bomb hit it"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"In the midst of fighting, there is no place for public debate"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict"

Ridley Scott, Director

"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean"

Henry Clay, Statesman

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field, and not wait till they plunder our very homes"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security"

Stephen Harper, Politician

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