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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
Daisaku Ikeda on war

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
Andrew Cuomo on war

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
Condoleezza Rice on war

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow on war

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
Walter Mosley on war

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
Louis Farrakhan on war

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
Terry Eagleton on war

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus on war

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
Cindy Sheehan on war

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
Harold Pinter on war

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips on war

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
Harold Pinter on war

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
Marvin Gaye on war

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi on war

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.
Nancy Pelosi on war

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
King Abdullah II on war

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
Jack Nicklaus on war

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
James Hillman on war

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
Al Pacino on war

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.
Jane Fonda on war