Just War Quotes - Page 3

• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, War, Adventure

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Stars, War

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• Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

  Euripides

  Hate, War, God Of War

  "Heracleidae". Play by Euripides, 430 BCE.

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, War, Battle

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Military, War, Exercise

  Rosalie Bertell (2001). “Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War”, p.2, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  Napoleon Hill

  War, Men, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.581, Penguin

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• In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Peace, War

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

  Joe Lieberman

  Military, War, Party

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• Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

  Jill Scott

  War, News, Poverty

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• If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

  Thomas Paine

  War, America, World

  The American Crisis, 21 Mar. 1778

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• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Peace, War, Criminals

  "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.

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• I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Peace, Military, War

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• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

  Herodotus

  Peace, Father, Military

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• The god of war hates those who hesitate.

  George S. Patton

  Hate, Military, War

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• War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Kings, War

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 5 'The Winter Morning Walk' l. 187

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

  Piers Morgan

  War, Different, News

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Eye

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.

  John Lennon

  Love, Peace, War

  "The David Frost Show" Interview, June 14, 1969.

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• What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, War, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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