Albert Einstein Quotes

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Morality is contraband in war.

It is very difficult to do one's duty. I was considered a barbarian because at the storming of the Praga, 7,000 people were killed. Europe says that I am a monster. I myself have read this in the papers, but I would have liked to talk to people about this and ask them: is it not better to finish a war with the death of 7,000 people rather than to drag it on and kill 100,000.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

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

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Meanwhile “our” troops during the past month, have been again at their congenial occupation of slaughtering native children and burning villages

What is war but murder and theft committed by great numbers on great numbers?

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

What is more immoral than war?

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

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.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.