Ted Turner Quotes

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

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

Not a single drop of blood, either of friend or foe, is upon my soul.

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

The essential effect of war on a citizen's conscience is nothing but a legalization and glorification of things that in times of peace constitute crime.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

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.'

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?

The most shocking thing about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual human beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth