Sigmund Freud Quotes

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

We don't want wars even when we win.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.