Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one"

George Galloway, Politician

"We... Our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"In time of peace, prepare for war"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?"

Michael Moore, Activist

"A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration"

Michael Moore, Activist

"Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"From a scientific perspective, there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the Earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children, and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war"

George Galloway, Politician

"To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!"

George Galloway, Politician

"How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk, and the world in our continent was another world of risk"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases, also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction"

Michael Moore, Activist

"Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights, 400 people were killed in small town"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons!"

Michael Moore, Activist

"I am struck by how casually we, as a nation, react to the carnage in Iraq"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich"

Michael Moore, Activist

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win"

Michael Moore, Activist

"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq"

Tom Allen, Politician

"There were no weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field, and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

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