Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

Dennis Weaver

"Arabs respect only the language of force"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows"

George Crook, Soldier

"During the engagement, I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village"

George Crook, Soldier

"All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can"

George Crook, Soldier

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

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

Khaleda Zia

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

Gavrilo Princip, Revolutionary

Gavrilo Princip

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

William Westmoreland

"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

"After every war, someone has to tidy up"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Gavrilo Princip, Revolutionary

Gavrilo Princip

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

George H. Mead, Philosopher

"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

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

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

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

David Niven, Actor

"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

Gustav Stresemann

"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

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

"The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids"

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory"

Jefferson Davis, President

Jefferson Davis

"The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

Condoleezza Rice

"Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

Joan of Arc

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"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

James Monroe

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

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"Politics is a blood sport"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"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

George Galloway

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

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"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

"Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings"

Frederick The Great, Royalty

"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

"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

"Tell mother I die for my country"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

John Wilkes Booth

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