Quotes About Consequences

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

War makes its own morals.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

Industry of war is the industry of shame

Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

All war aims for impunity.

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

You help us, they'll lock you up for the rest of your life.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.