Alex Cox Quotes

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

The workers everywhere do not want their sons to die, mangled scraps of flesh … in order to enrich Wall Street. America, keep out of this war!

The question in my mind then is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

Soldiers will continue to die in wars that few can convincingly explain why we are fighting.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

To plagiarize an out of date Ph.D. thesis and to present it as an official report of the latest British intelligence information, surely it reveals a lack of awareness of the disastrous consequences of such a deception. This is not a trivial leak. It is a document on which is the basis of whether or not this country goes to war and whether or not young servicemen and servicewomen are to put their own lives at risk and indeed thousands, tens of thousands of innocent civilians.

The ground was strewn with the dead, the dying, and the wounded—here lay one man with his leg shot off, there another with a wound in his head, another with an arm shot off, and hundreds wounded in nearly all the various parts of the body.

War is death’s holy-day.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.