This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Barack Obama commits war crimes – Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep a spotlight on war crimes, to keep track of the innocents killed… There is a major clash.
I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Preemptive war is what Israel did in ‘67 with Arab armies on its borders.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the ‘L’ag Beomer.’ They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don’t really understand its full significance.
To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us – which they have declared – we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them.
I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
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.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
