Rupert Everett Quotes

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

Morality is contraband in war.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

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

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

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

We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations—acting individually or in concert—will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

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.

In war there are no easy choices.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Nothing can justify war.

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

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

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy. That was my job that day. That was the mission I was given. I did not sit down and think in terms of men, women and children. They were all classified as the same, and that's the classification that we dealt with over there, just as the enemy. I felt then and I still do that I acted as I was directed, and I carried out the order that I was given and I do not feel wrong in doing so.

It is very difficult to do one's duty. I was considered a barbarian because at the storming of the Praga, 7,000 people were killed. Europe says that I am a monster. I myself have read this in the papers, but I would have liked to talk to people about this and ask them: is it not better to finish a war with the death of 7,000 people rather than to drag it on and kill 100,000.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.