How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice WalkerWar is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon BonaparteWhen I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
Angelina JolieWith those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
George W. BushI have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will RogersI have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George EliotWe all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.
Colin PowellWe cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy CarterWorld War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
Robert KiyosakiIt is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac AsimovThe political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Carl von ClausewitzIt is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas JeffersonCharacter is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaThe earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
Nikola TeslaWar is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
Angelina JoliePolitics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillI saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
Madeleine AlbrightThe Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Golda MeirWar is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Carl von ClausewitzMankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. KennedyThey wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest HemingwayWhen the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston ChurchillOlder men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert HooverIn war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius CaesarSo long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert HubbardThose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillPeace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch SpinozaThere is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo CoelhoFor a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest HemingwayAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham LincolnA number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
Noam ChomskyNever think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest HemingwayYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzscheI don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack ObamaCommunism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy GrahamMarriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert HooverCould I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthurI am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWar is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas JeffersonWar is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Harper LeeA war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.
Clint EastwoodNo body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Francis BaconThere is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo MachiavelliI can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor RooseveltIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Douglas MacArthurWar is a contagion.
Franklin D. RooseveltIn the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!
Noam ChomskyWar may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy CarterIn 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.
Noam ChomskyBut does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
Jane GoodallGod is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HeraclitusWe’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaHave we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin LutherWe must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston ChurchillThere is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart