We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy CarterThe 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.
Bill GatesThe problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWar is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George OrwellWashington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
Noam ChomskyIt is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWar may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy CarterWhen rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul SartreIn war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOf the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald ReaganIf there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore RooseveltDrama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
Clint EastwoodViolence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
Aldous HuxleyThe 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.
Douglas MacArthurCommunism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy GrahamThe threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.
Noam ChomskyEvery 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.
George OrwellThe American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
Noam ChomskyPolitics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston ChurchillThe Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
Noam ChomskyI do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert EinsteinThe level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Noam ChomskyWar is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
Carl von ClausewitzIt is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac AsimovI 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.
Alice WalkerThe strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert FrostSomething’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
Robert KiyosakiWar – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George WashingtonWhen you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Desmond TutuThe unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore RooseveltThere was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinJustice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph AddisonAn unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma GandhiThe protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.
Bill GatesA war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.
Clint EastwoodMy great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
Jimmy CarterI 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.
Madeleine AlbrightI find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel CastroWe can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
Virginia WoolfPeace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard ShawThe Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.
Christopher HitchensYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzscheYou can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
Henry KissingerI just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
George W. BushI can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
George H. W. BushPeace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch SpinozaThe role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Albert CamusNo one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.
Joe BidenAnd so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
Madeleine AlbrightWar is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von ClausewitzI have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
BonoIntolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma GandhiIf atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
J. Robert Oppenheimer‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘
Dave GrohlEvery normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. MenckenA sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
Angelina Jolie