3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn’t exist anymore.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
3 December 2020 Lester B. Pearson It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
3 December 2020 Otto von Bismarck Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Spock What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
3 December 2020 Peggy Noonan The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
3 December 2020 William Alexander Henry Look at an infantryman’s eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
3 December 2020 Stephen King What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
3 December 2020 George Washington War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
3 December 2020 Jon Meacham The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
