Paul McCartney Quotes

First of all, we have to say loud and clear to all those who are engaged in the fighting that attention to and respect for humanitarian needs is absolutely imperative. Anyone with any knowledge of Iraq, never mind any concern about the future, knows that the way in which the war is prosecuted has a big impact on what comes afterwards.

Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.

War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of child pleading, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single image portrayed on the television screen, but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war ... we will have more humility in our discussions of wars... perhaps it is time to listen to womens side of history.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

They won the war but lost the peace.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

The initial [Iraq] war was won in about 6 weeks, but the peace was lost soon thereafter.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!

What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.