Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs"

Jerome Cady, Screenwriter

"It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq War and the view from our friends across the Atlantic"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"Wars have always started over religion"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the War on Terror"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?"

Clare Short, Politician

"The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war"

Clare Short, Politician

"But they were going to war anyway, and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it"

Clare Short, Politician

"As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is, when Israelis kill innocents, they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents, they celebrate"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"Obviously, this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza, and so on, and the terrorist retaliation"

Clare Short, Politician

"Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago, or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism"

Alfred Rosenberg, Soldier

"We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home"

Mike Pence, Politician

"And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know"

Clare Short, Politician

"And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering, and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that"

Clare Short, Politician

"We won't always have the strongest military"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

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