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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.Collection: War
During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.Collection: War
I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.Collection: War
Tony Blair is a war criminal.Collection: War
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.Collection: War
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?Collection: War
The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.Collection: War
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.Collection: War
I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.Collection: War
A bad war is fought with a good mind.Collection: War
Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.Collection: War
I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].Collection: War
They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.Collection: War
In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.Collection: War
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.Collection: War
We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.Collection: War
All war is deception.Collection: War
War is a matter of vital importance to the state.Collection: War
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.Collection: War
A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.Collection: War
According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?Collection: War
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.Collection: War
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.Collection: War
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.Collection: War
He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too--in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?Collection: War
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.Collection: War
Barack Obama has made things exponentially worse, but let's face it, when Republicans had total control over it, they didn't do what they said they were gonna do. I think also people got fatigued with the war. And the party got into a whole bunch of corruption and personal scandals that weren't compatible with the principles it claimed to stand for.Collection: War
There's no such thing as an anti-war film.Collection: War
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.Collection: War
The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.Collection: War
When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that.Collection: War
Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.Collection: War
I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.Collection: War
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.Collection: War
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.Collection: War
Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.Collection: War
I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.Collection: War
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.Collection: War
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.Collection: War
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.Collection: War
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.Collection: War
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.Collection: War
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.Collection: War
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.Collection: War
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.Collection: War
Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.Collection: War
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.Collection: War