“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”
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“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.”
“Law is always better than war.”
“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”
“The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.”
“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.”
“The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?”
“It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.”
“I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'”
“We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.”
“God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.”
“War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.”
“I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.”
“When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.”
“What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.”
“I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.”
“The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.”
“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.”
“There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.”
“There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.”
“There's no question that jihad historically means war.”
“Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.”
“The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.”
“Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.”