Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.

We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

When adults wage war, children perish.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

War is politics by other means.