Timothy Manning Quotes

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

This will be a war of extermination.

The arms race is one of the greatest curses on the human race and the harm it inflicts on the poor is more than can be endured

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor.

England seizes our food whilst death seizes on our people.

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.