Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Daryn Kagan on war
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Howard Zinn on war
War itself is the enemy of the human race. Howard Zinn on war
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. Elizabeth I on war
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. Stefan Zweig on war
Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. George H. W. Bush on war
A bad peace is even worse than war. Tacitus on war
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. David Bailey on war
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. Joe Biden on war
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. Vladimir Nabokov on war
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. Russell Baker on war
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. Oliver Stone on war
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. James Lovelock on war
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. Thomas Frank on war
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. Gerry Adams on war
Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate. Jay Leno on war
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. Margaret J. Wheatley on war
You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. Peter Singer on war
Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. Howard Dean on war