The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army. Conan O'Brien on war
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Marshall McLuhan on war
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. Bjork on war
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. Muammar al-Gaddafi on war
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. Joseph A. Schumpeter on war
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part. Eamon de Valera on war
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Alfred Adler on war
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. Alfred Adler on war
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. Howard Zinn on war
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of. Neil Young on war
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. Thomas Hobbes on war
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins. King Abdullah II on war
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. Joseph Wood Krutch on war
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans. Madeleine Albright on war
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. Madeleine Albright on war
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home. Madeleine Albright on war
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight. Madeleine Albright on war
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. Karl Lagerfeld on war
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. Alison Lurie on war