Best accepting & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.”

War Nations Accepting Citizens Fellows Terror Vulnerability Urges Multiculturalism War On Terror Lax

Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

“When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.”

War Care Young White Accepting Week Exercise Comfort Training Tasks Pet Strokes Brushes Rabbits Initiation Parachutes Brush Strokes

Author:Matthew Parris

“Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator or scientist who doubts that is taken to prison or gets condemned. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe - like in Germany, Austria or other countries - to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.”

“It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.”

War Individual Community Accepting Danger Glory Understood Opponents Acquire Ardor

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.”

Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

“When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims -- national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument. I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil.”

May War Whole Humanity Evil Individual Nations Accepting Objects Civilization Mets Argument Ultimate Aim Agree Independence Impact Worthy Terrorism Terrorist Justify Objections Idealist

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

“For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.”

War States Left Accepting Cold Wings Democratic Faults Reform Regimes Cold War Right Wing Left Wing Totalitarian State

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.”

War Nations Sex Differences Race Compassion Accepting Empathy Competition Encounters Subjection Incapacity Lack Of Empathy

Author:Marya Mannes

“Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean War Facts Speak Loses Accepting Doubt Direct Nuclear No Doubt Aggression Cuba Nuclear War

Author:Che Guevara

“Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.”

Has Beens Ideas War Country Government Grief Accepting Citizens Normal Fellows Majority Iraq Ignorant Advertising No Idea Experts Iraq War Abnormal Deceptive Public Education

Author:Gore Vidal

“I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.”

Knows Men Years War Three Accepting Fellows Prison Killing Three Years Fellow Man Participating Quaker

Author:Bayard Rustin

“Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.”

“Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.”

“Islamic terrorism is not common crime but an act of war. Jihad is war. For the Jihadi it is a war; we must also accept it as such. Home grown Muslim militants must be treated, not just as enemy combatants but as traitors.”

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Author:Ali Sina

“People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.”

People World War Differences Accepting Democratic Iraq Endless Around The World Afghanistan Good War Endless War

Author:Malalai Joya

“The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.”

War Fighting Accepting Military Demand Machines Obvious Partners Warfare Obvious Things

Author:George S. Patton

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .”

“War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.”

War Play Lying Games Accepting Ought Terrible Horrible Things In Life Falsehood Courtesy Horrible Things

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)

“[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.”

War Light Accepting Darkness Holy Devil Dues Paradigm Idolatry Holy War

Author:Gregory A. Boyd

“In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.”

War Accepting Demand Willingness Avoided

Book:Who Rules the World?

Source: Who Rules the World?

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