Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes"

June Jordan, Writer

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

Howard Thurman, Educator

"We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Nothing changes without blood flowing"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?"

George C. Wallace, Politician

"We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"The war is coming to the streets of America, and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms, then you will be helpless, and you will be the victim of evil"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"In Iraq, we must succeed. Failure is not an option"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil, then evil will get you"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"Perhaps, September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT, my friends, is true perversion"

Harvey Milk, Politician

"Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / I"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war"

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Economist

"We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat, and no other reason"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line, the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

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