Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"Police do not belong in war zones"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"Accurst be he that first invented war!"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Accursed be he that first invented war!"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

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

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig"

Claud Cockburn, Journalist

"Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive"

William J. Clinton, President

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

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program"

William J. Clinton, President

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line"

William J. Clinton, President

"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

"Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"

Norman Cousins, Author

"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war"

George H. W. Bush, President

"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

"The savages don't have atom bombs"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower"

George H. W. Bush, President

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

Thucydides, Historian

"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

"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports"

Mike Fitzpatrick, 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

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