No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
Douglas Hurd quote on War
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
War – Edmund Burke
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
Georges Clemenceau – War
In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God’s mercy and grace, their lives lose all value. We deny personal responsibility when we plant landmines and, days or years later, a stranger to us
Jimmy Carter – inhumanity of war
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
Jimmy Carter – Invasion of Iraq
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy Carter – War
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter – War, Peace
The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.
Jimmy Carter – Iran, Iraq, War
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill – Winning, War
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero – Peace, War
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.
George Orwell – War and destruction
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
George Orwell on war
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves
Albert Camus – War, Humanity
If any one year stands out as a major plot point in the Vietnam experience, it has to be 1968, from fade-in to fade-out. When it ended, the country would never be the same. Values, ethics, and morals from the previous era collided head-on with the rebellious and complicated present.
Vietnam war and the society
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
