Ariel Sharon Quotes

When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

It is better for aged diplomats to be bored than for young men to die.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.