951 private quotes tagged war

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” — Pope Benedict XVI

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“Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.” — Ron Paul

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“I was drafted during the Korean War.” — Clint Eastwood

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“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.” — R. Lee Ermey

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“One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.” — Noam Chomsky

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“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.” — Ron Paul

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“It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.” — Vanessa Kerry

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“I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.” — Christopher Meloni

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“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.” — Ron Paul

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“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.” — Shel Silverstein

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“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.” — Thomas Merton

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“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.” — Jim Ramstad

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“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?” — Joan Baez

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“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.” — Herbert V. Prochnow

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” — Euripides

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“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” — David Friedman

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