Sheri Fink Quotes

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

We sit there because there is a war going on. But once we have peace we don’t want to be sitting on your Suez Canal.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life

By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

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

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.