Waging War Quotes

Government is waging war against the people.

L. Neil Smith

War, Government, People

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Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Theodore C. Sorensen

War, Smart, Mass Destruction

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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

War, Issues, Diversity

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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Fredrik Bajer

War, Rate

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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Elie Wiesel

War, Goal, Humanity

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.166, Schocken

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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Christian, Military, War

"West must act to end jihad: Imam" by Frank Walker, www.smh.com.au. March 21, 2004.

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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

Otto Schily

Military, War, Soldier

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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Patricia Ireland

Winning, Principles, Campaigns

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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Peace, War, Politics

Le Diable et le bon Dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951) act 1, first tableau

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One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

George H. W. Bush

War, Marching On, Our Veterans

"Don Imus interviews former President George H.W. Bush". Interview with Don Imus, www.chron.com. September 1, 2004.

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This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

James Forrestal

Country, Luxury, Hype

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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers

War, Self, Imagination

Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.224, Anchor

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I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Cindy Sheehan

War, President, United States

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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty

Maxine Waters

Change, Real, War

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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Crush, War, Loss

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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

War, Long, Hypocrisy

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On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Fredrik Bajer

Art, Responsibility, Hands

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Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

Scott McClellan

War, Mistake, Unnecessary

Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.13, PublicAffairs

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A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Gerald R. Ford

Victory, President, Groups

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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

Life, Peace, War

Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.17, Turner Publishing Company

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For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

David Horowitz

Years, Decision, Foundation

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The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

George Orwell

War, Victory, Structure

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It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

Kendrick Meek

Leadership, Real, Issues

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That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Paul Wolfowitz

War, Views, Europe

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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

Ulrich Beck

Real, War, Taken

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