Winston Churchill Quotes

Pearl Harbor was not as cruel as the atomic bombing. The atom bomb wiped out everything: people in church, children in kindergarten, even their dogs and cats. Pearl Harbor was terrible, but not as bad as that…. I think that the atomic bombings rank with the Holocaust as the greatest crimes against humanity in this century...

Treat everyone found outside the walls [of the city] as anti-Japanese and destroy them…. Since it is convenient in conducting sweep operations to burn down houses, prepare materials.

When the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements.... It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent them planting more. It should be ... impressed upon the minds of the men whenever they have an opportunity, to rush on with the war hoop and fixed bayonet. Nothing will disconcert and terrify the Indians more than this

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.

"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.