Daniel Ellsberg Quotes

'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.

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

If women and children have cruelly and needlessly suffered, if without reason cities have been wrecked, the world should know that.

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

Attacks on health facilities, health workers, ambulances, is now a reality that we observe on the ground - not on a monthly but on a daily or weekly scale in most of the conflicts in which we are engaged.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

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

We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.

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

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

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

I don’t care how precise your bombs and weapons of war are. When you set them off, innocent people will die.

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.

Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

Bombing Syria will achieve nothing.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

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

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.