It is not only the living who are killed in war.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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 can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Law is always better than war.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

‚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.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Morality is contraband in war.

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

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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!