3 December 2020 Albert Camus The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
3 December 2020 Edward Young One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, ‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame.
3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
3 December 2020 Bjork I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don’t have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.
3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
3 December 2020 Jay Leno Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night’s Democratic debate.
3 December 2020 Shel Silverstein 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.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
3 December 2020 Voltaire It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
3 December 2020 Otto von Bismarck Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
3 December 2020 James Madison The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
3 December 2020 Charles Wilson Character… is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
3 December 2020 John Mayer You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson I think I’m just someone that just tries to get by. I’m kind of – if it was during the Second World War, I’d be a black marketeer, I think.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
