Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment"

Gavrilo Princip, Revolutionary

"Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society"

Pervez Musharraf, Statesman

"I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed"

Gavrilo Princip, Revolutionary

"Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is the continuation of politics by other means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Arabs respect only the language of force"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"In wartime, we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves"

George H. Mead, Philosopher

"The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it"

John Randolph, Leader

"As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies, it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

"People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity"

David Niven, Actor

"What was taken by force can only be restored by force"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will"

James Monroe, President

"Politics is a blood sport"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars"

George Galloway, Politician

"There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"Tell mother I die for my country"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"If their were more Franklin operations, it could help the cause much more than right wing activity"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders"

Ralph Bunche, Diplomat

"The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers"

John Lawson, Explorer

"I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots"

Muammar al-Gaddafi, Leader

"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily"

Gary North, Writer

"Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake"

Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman

"We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists, while during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years"

Ken Follett, Author

"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

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