Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"God made them as stubble to our swords"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"The object of war is victory; that of victory, is conquest; and that of conquest, preservation"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's: be brave or else be killed"

Margaret Mitchell, Novelist

"The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although it's close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities, and spent time with the people, and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war, and talked about why they had come back"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up, and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"I am against all war"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing"

Lawrence Korb, Writer

"You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world"

George Galloway, Politician

"We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world"

Robert Reich, Economist

"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention"

Lawrence Korb, Writer

"We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security"

Lawrence Korb, Writer

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

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"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

"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism"

Howard Thurman, Educator

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