Cate Blanchett Quotes

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

War is a contagion.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

… a war of the world

'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.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

War is not civilized.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Morality is contraband in war.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

War is at its best barbarism.

Every war has its demons.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.