Frankie Boyle Quotes

… the financial cost of a [military] strike isn’t a reason to acquiesce in mass murder in Syria.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The Senate is rushing to vote on whether to declare war on Iraq without pausing to ask why. Why is war being dealt with not as a last resort but as a first resort?

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

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.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

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

Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

I don’t care how precise your bombs and weapons of war are. When you set them off, innocent people will die.

That was a declaration of war

Maintaining the law in a time of war is virtually impossible.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

Every war I have ever covered – Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Liberia – withstood all diplomatic efforts to end it until Western military action finally forced a resolution.

Do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

You're bombing that little piss-ant country up there [Vietnam], and you think you can blow them up. You've been doing this all the time. It's a bunch of crap about wanting to negotiate.