Laws are silent in time of war.

War is the business of barbarians.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

The world is too violent right now.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

They 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.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

In 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!

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.