William Hunter Quotes

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.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

Resolved that the present war ... was unconstitutionally commenced by the order of the President ... and that it is now waged by a powerful nation against a weak neighbor ... at immense cost of treasure and life.... That such a war of conquest, so hateful in its objects, so wanton, unjust and unconstitutional in its origin and character, must be regarded as a war against freedom, against humanity, against justice.

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

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

Morality is contraband in war.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

War is a last and terrible defense of even a righteous cause, and sets at defiance all the ordinary laws and customs of society.

Christians … had come through razing the towns and carrying off half the men and all the women and boys.

To take by force any place in possession of another nation, whatever our claim to that place might be, is war.

Every war which has not been announced and declared should be adjudged unjust and impious.

The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Nothing can justify war.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

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

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.