Just War Quotes
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
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Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.
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I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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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.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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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.
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There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
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No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
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I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
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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.
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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.
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Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality.
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If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
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