It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Battle... brings out all that is best.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.
It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.
Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.
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