War Quotes - Page 361

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.