We need to decide that we will not go to war whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media because war in our time is always indiscriminate a war against innocents a war against children.

In order for a war to be just three things are necessary. First the authority of the sovereign. Secondly a just cause. Thirdly a rightful intention.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians do because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

This is an important book the critic assumes because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy it is gross it is alienating... because it causes war hypocrisy and competition.