Ezra Pound Quotes

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.

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

This will be a war of extermination.

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

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

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

'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.

In every war, there's looting.

Morality is contraband in war.

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.

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.

War is a contagion.

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

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

You have wasted six hundred millions of treasure. You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives—the flower of our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit.

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.

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

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.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

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

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

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.