By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

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

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

We 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.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

A siege is an act of war.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

War is the business of barbarians.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

And every human being is precious.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

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.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I 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.

Freedom is not enough.

Man, all lives matter.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Society is at odds with itself.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

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?‘

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.