Benjamin Spock Quotes

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

This will be a war of extermination.

Once genocide is under way, it is unlikely that anything but military force will end the horror.

We shall destroy Israel and prepare boats to deport the survivors, if there are any.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

'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.

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.

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.

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

We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks], and then proceeded in the work of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stones and dust, and when the villages became untenable and the inhabitants fled from them into the fields, bullets and bayonets completed the work.

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

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

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

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.

Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.

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

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.

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

In every war, there's looting.

Morality is contraband in war.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

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.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.