Haskell Wexler Quotes

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

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.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

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.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

The Quran explicitly opposes the killing of innocent people and the Prophet was always careful in doing that. If they had to fight a war, he was always on the side of peace as soon as it was possible to make peace because that's what the Quran says also.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.