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 United States never lost a war or won a conference.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

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.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

When 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.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

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

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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?

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

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

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

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

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

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

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.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

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.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

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

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.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.