Quotes About War

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

Love is not unarmed," said Jesus, looking at the centurion's cold blue eyes, his freshly shaven cheeks and fat, short-fingered hands. "Love too makes war and runs to the assault.

They thirsted to fight because the war existed, and because it had been officially declared admirable and patriotic to kill. That was enough.

Xamã uma vez ou outra ouvia os ecos amedrontadores da iminência da guerra nos Estados Unidos.

when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near, for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class…. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don't want anybody else to know about it.

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans.

Corporations with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people.

It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.

Just war theory has been converted into a form of apologetics for whatever atrocities your favored state is carrying out.

I think, legally speaking, there's a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the Second World War. They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes.) The

In Greece, British troops entered after the Nazis had withdrawn. They imposed a corrupt regime that evoked renewed resistance, and Britain, in its postwar decline, was unable to maintain control. In 1947, the United States moved in, supporting a murderous war that resulted in about 160,000 deaths.

War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.

Well, a good place to start if you want to know what something was about is to look to see what changes it introduced. And particularly in the case of a war planned in advance where the outcome was never in any doubt, I think you have solid reason to believe the result was what the thing was really for in the first place.

Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3

The reasoning throughout is straightforward, and is in full accord with what Bush calls "new thinking in the law of war," which takes international law and treaties to be "private contractual rules" that the more powerful party "is free to apply or disregard as it sees fit": sternly enforced to ensure a safer world for investors, but quaint and obsolete when they constrain Washington's resort to aggression and other crimes.

crime of war" is a criminal activity of which the defeated enemies, but not the victors, are guilty.

An enemy combatant can be anyone that the US chooses to attack, with no credible evidence, as Washington concedes.

the masters represent "the national interest," like those who applauded themselves for leading the country to war "after the utmost deliberation by the more thoughtful members of the community" had reached its "moral verdict.

A few days after my new state occupied my village, I became a prisoner of war rather than a citizen.