Quotes on War

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.