Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk, looking for enemy aircraft, which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion"

Douglas Bader, Soldier

"The last of our enemies is laid low"

Clement Attlee, Leader

"The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"To deal with the true causes of war, one must begin by recognizing, as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem, the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace"

Rick Perry, Politician

"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"War is an abstraction"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us"

Bill Condon, Director

"Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"The fleet being thus more inclosed, will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility, form itself into the line of battle, a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing"

William Falconer, Poet

"Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions"

William Falconer, Poet

"In the time of battle, the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy"

William Falconer, Poet

"I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god"

Beilby Porteus, Clergyman

"Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button, the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind"

Stephen Crane, Writer

"War is the great scavenger of thought"

Ismail Kadare, Novelist

"In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"It was stunning, actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... They are trying to sell to the others an illusion"