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.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

People like to talk about 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.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

War is a contagion.

‚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.

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 love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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

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.

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

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.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

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

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.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

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 remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

The world is too violent right now.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

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.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

War is what happens when language fails.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

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.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

In time of war the laws are silent.