QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, J. R. Hobson, Robert Taft, George W. Bush, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, H. G. Wells, John F. Kennedy, Sarah Bellum, Thich Nhat Hanh, David L. Wilson, Johan Christoph Schiller, Dale Turner, Edward Abbey, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Couturier, Cheverton.

• Governments use national animosities, foreign wars and the glamour of empire-making, in order to...divert rising sentiment against domestic abuses.
  ~J. R. Hobson
  
  
• Criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
  ~Robert Taft
  
  

• Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.
  ~George W. Bush (Speaking on the war in Kosovo.)
  
  
• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised "for the good of its victims" may be the most oppressive.
  ~C. S. Lewis
  
  
• Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be...surer of the noose than a private homicide.
  ~H. G. Wells
  
  
• If you make peaceful change impossible... you make violent revolution inevitable.
  ~John F. Kennedy
  
  
• Not only is war a form of legalized murder, but it is mass serial killing.
  ~Sarah Bellum
  
  
• In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.
  ~Thich Nhat Hanh (Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
  
  
• War creates peace like hate creates love.
  ~David L. Wilson
  
  
• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
  ~Johan Christoph Schiller
  
  
• Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it.
  ~Dale Turner (from an article in The Seattle Times, 1/11/03.)
  
  
• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
  ~Edward Abbey (A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.)
  
  
• Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
  ~Edward Abbey (A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.)
  
  
• War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
  ~Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• It takes more courage to get out of a war than it does to get into one.
  ~Mark Couturier
  
  

 

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