Justify War Quotes

#1. If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

#2. Nothing can justify war.

Isaac Rosenberg

#3. Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#4. We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more
God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. We are here to say most fundamentally, no more inhumanity in the name of our nation.

Rocky Anderson

#5. We need to learn ... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

Tony Judt

#6. The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

Imran Khan

#7. Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa

#8. But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

John Connolly

#9. (Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

Molly Haskell

#10. During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply counted up their stuff and either bought more of the same or upgraded our technology.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#11. The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

Merrill McPeak

#12. As soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

Harry S. Truman

#13. Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Even today we raise our hand against our brother ... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Pope Francis

#15. No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.

Clint Van Winkle

#16. No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

John Haynes Holmes

#17. The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

Scott Ritter

#18. What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

Henry A. Kissinger

#19. War is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

Corra May Harris

#20. When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'

Alex Gibney

#21. In short, Arab leaders committed to the destruction of Israel invented the concept "Palestinian people" in order to justify their interminable war against Israel.

Meir Levi, David

#22. How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

Pat Buchanan

#23. Casus Belli. It means an incident that's used to justify a war ...

Glenn Beck

#24. Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

Gore Vidal

#25. By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

Mohammad Marandi

#26. Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves.

Vasily Grossman

#27. But none of that is possible," he continued, "if my heart is at war. A heart at war needs enemies to justify its warring. It needs enemies and mistreatment more than it wants peace.

The Arbinger Institute

#28. We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it ... No grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.

Robert H. Jackson

#29. You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'

Glenn Greenwald

#31. I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Franklin Pierce