The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

War settles nothing.

‚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.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

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

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’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

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

Morality is contraband in war.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

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.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

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

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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

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

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

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

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

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

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.

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

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

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

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

War is what happens when language fails.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

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

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.