3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
3 December 2020 Fareed Zakaria The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
3 December 2020 Mira Nair With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’
3 December 2020 George H. W. Bush One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
3 December 2020 George McGovern There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
3 December 2020 Andrew Cuomo There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
3 December 2020 John Cory There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
3 December 2020 Robert Foster Bennett I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
3 December 2020 Rita Rudner A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.
3 December 2020 Stefan Zweig Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
3 December 2020 George McGovern I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
3 December 2020 Albert Ellis As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.
3 December 2020 Claude Chabrol I remember an article, I can’t recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.
3 December 2020 Golda Meir I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
