Top 1200 Unjust War Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world.

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?

Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.

Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.

The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

Political analysts say that President Bush's re-election strategy is to try and convince Americans that he's a war president. I don't get that, do you think that'll work? I mean, don't you think that if he tries to convince the American people that we need a war president, isn't he afraid that they're going to vote for the guy that was actually in a war?

For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

We have huge holes in our education in the West. I think that we have little knowledge of Asian history. If you ask a well-educated, modern Western person about World War II, most will think that the theatre of war was only in Europe. But it's known that the Pacific War was going on concurrently, and we don't know anything about it.

Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.