Quotes About War

And this is as good a picture as any of how counterculture communities like the Haight took care of the war's mangled souls: a doctor from a hippie clinic carrying a dying, emaciated soldier in his arms. For decades after the war, up to this very day, right-wing politicians and pundits have spread the libel about how peace activists and hippies greeted returning Vietnam vets with gobs of spit and contempt.

Boys dream of war. But men can dream of peace.

We cannot forget [for example] that one of the big war factories in Germany was the Opel Company which was owned and financed by the General Motors Corporation, a company in which Secretary Stettinius had a great interest.

I am no minister of malice," he said, "I would not repel the repentant, but . . . may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I forget the difference between the parties to that . . . bloody conflict. . . . I may say if this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all things sacred what shall men remember?

Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than humanity.

I'll never shake the hand of someone I might be fighting against in wartime.

We understand at some level why combat veterans shrink from sharing their stories: we don't want to know them. In our sometimes-frenzied veneration of war heroes, we are too eager to rush past the shadowed doorway where lurks what the poet Peter Marin calls "the terrible and demanding wisdom" of war.

The president has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. These aren't Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own. Don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war.

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

In my most recent novel, The Eros Project, I have called this age–old habit of people of making war and preying upon each other simply the War. This use is close to what Hobbes identified as the war of all against all, which he thought to be the natural state of man.

He watched them return from the war unbowed, full of rage, and more committed than ever to white supremacy.

The motivating force behind the UNDHR and the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees was a desire to ensure that never again would there be such suffering as that experienced in the wake of the Second World War. Unfortunately that is exactly what is happening now.

Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.

It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths

Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

Esse conceito moderno de é ridículo, é estúpido, porque a guerra consiste sobretudo em crimes, em todas as frentes e desde o primeiro até ao último dia.

Esse conceito moderno de crimes de guerra é ridículo, é estúpido, porque a guerra consiste sobretudo em crimes, em todas as frentes e desde o primeiro até ao último dia.

Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí', pensé; o más bien me acordé de ello.