Top 1200 Unjust War Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.

From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the Second World War. You couldn't be opposed to the war for years. The mainstream liberal intellectuals were enthusiastically in support of the war. In Boston, a liberal city where I was, we literally couldn't have a public demonstration without it being violently broken up, with the liberal press applauding, until late 1966.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

Islamic terrorism is not common crime but an act of war. Jihad is war. For the Jihadi it is a war; we must also accept it as such. Home grown Muslim militants must be treated, not just as enemy combatants but as traitors.

William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.