Nancy Gibbs Quotes

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminatingly murderous.

War is always a very blunt instrument and almost always produces uncertain results.

The end must justify the means.

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, 'Let's go fight and win it all back!' But at what price? What is the cost? It's another story of lives and land. And I won't do it.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Nothing can justify war.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.