— Gerry Spence American lawyer 1929
Context: Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs.
On the war against terrorism
— Norman Mailer American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate 1923 - 2007
Michael Lovett, in Ch. 18
— Niccolo Machiavelli Italian politician, Writer and Author 1469 - 1527
Context: No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.
Book 7; Variant translation: No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
Good order and discipline in an army are more to be depended upon than ferocity.
As translated by Neal Wood (1965)
— Jonathan Wells American intelligent design advocate 1942
The Problem Of Evidence http://www.discovery.org/a/9061, 2009.
— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Iranian politician, Shi'a cleric and Writer 1934
Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says Middle East may see a war in the near future http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12242§ionid=351020101 (June 6, 2007)
— George Marshall US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880 - 1959
Context: For the past ten years conditions have been abnormal. The feverish preparation for war and the more feverish maintenance of the war effort engulfed all aspects of national economies. Machinery has fallen into disrepair or is entirely obsolete. Under the arbitrary and destructive Nazi rule, virtually every possible enterprise was geared into the German war machine. Long-standing commercial ties, private institutions, banks, insurance companies, and shipping companies disappeared through loss of capital, absorption through nationalization, or by simple destruction. In many countries, confidence in the local currency has been severely shaken. The breakdown of the business structure of Europe during the war was complete.
— Ralph Bunche American diplomat 1903 - 1971
— Herbert Read English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art 1893 - 1968
Note appended to his poem The End of War (1933)
— Bernard Cornwell British writer 1944
Colonel Sir Barnaby Moon, p. 11
— Joaquin Miller American judge 1837 - 1913
The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.
— Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
— Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace P… 1942
Context: The picture I have painted today may have seemed somewhat grim. Let me conclude by telling you why I have hope.
I have hope because the positive aspects of globalization are enabling nations and peoples to become politically, economically and socially interdependent, making war an increasingly unacceptable option.
Among the 25 members of the European Union, the degree of economic and socio-political dependencies has made the prospect of the use of force to resolve differences almost absurd. The same is emerging with regard to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, with some 55 member countries from Europe, Central Asia and North America. Could these models be expanded to a world model, through the same creative multilateral engagement and active international cooperation, where the strong are just and the weak secure?
— Curtis LeMay American general and politician 1906 - 1990
On the morality of the firebombing campaign http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX61.html)
— Andrei Sakharov Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist 1921 - 1989
