Top 100 War Crime Quotes
#1. Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
George Wald
#2. I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.
J.G. Ballard
#3. My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
Alan Zweibel
#4. Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans.
Noam Chomsky
#5. Females create life, males end it. War, crime, violence, are primarily male franchises. Man shit. It's nature's supreme joke.
Deep in the womb, men start out as the good thing, and wind up as the crappy thing. Not all men. Just enough. Just enough to fuck things up.
George Carlin
#6. The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.
Haskell Wexler
#7. This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward?
Nick Hornby
#8. The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
Michael Parenti
#9. How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
Gunter Grass
#10. The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
Antony Beevor
#11. If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
Sebastian Junger
#12. Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
John Pomfret
#13. You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
Molly Crabapple
#14. The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
Kurt Vonnegut
#15. The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future
Stefan Molyneux
#16. As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
Rosa Parks
#17. No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
Sebastian Junger
#18. The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.
Noam Chomsky
#19. Everything is endured - disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui - in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.
Henry Miller
#20. I think war is a crime. If you don't believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead.
Michael McCormick
#21. The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".
Max Stirner
#22. One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
Sebastian Junger
#23. Crime is contagious ... if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
Louis D. Brandeis
#24. The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#25. Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
Craig Bruce
#26. Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#27. In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
Jesse Ventura
#28. Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
Antonin Artaud
#29. To him, as to me, the War was inevitable and justifiable. Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.
Siegfried Sassoon
#30. Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.
Ronald Reagan
#31. If the instigation for jihad [holy war] against the Jews and the Americans ... is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal.
Osama Bin Laden
#32. Just by living, people hurt others without even realizing it. So long as humanity exists, hate will also exist. There is no peace in this cursed world. War is just a crime paid for by the pain of the defeated...
Masashi Kishimoto
#34. We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.
John R. Rice
#35. Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image.
Santosh Kalwar
#36. I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and revenge.
-the girl who played go
Shan Sa
#37. Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.
Jan Egeland
#38. There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?
The Maid
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Steen Langstrup
#39. Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.
Tony Benn
#40. After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.
Chris Womersley
#41. But all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.
Jim Butcher
#42. Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
Joe Abercrombie
#43. War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles Evans Hughes
#45. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#46. Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.
Max Brooks
#47. Watanabe would later admit that in the beginning of his life in exile, he had pondered the question of whether or not he had committed any crime. In the end, he laid the blame not on himself but on "sinful, absurd, insane war." He saw himself as a victim.
Laura Hillenbrand
#48. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster
#49. You'll be very close to him when you shoot him. So shove the pistol in his face and pull the trigger instantly."
Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
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Steen Langstrup
#50. Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo
#51. To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.
Chris Womersley
#52. Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
Olavo De Carvalho
#53. Sneaking out at night. You think you're so clever, but you're not. Either you're a saboteur, Johannes, or you've got a mistress.
The Reverend's wife, Grete
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Steen Langstrup
#54. perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war.
Ernest Hemingway,
#55. We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
Chris Womersley
#56. The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
Edmund Burke
#57. The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds of thousands of people while at the same time cutting billions of dollars
from programs that would provide opportunity to young Americans.
Steven Donziger
#58. In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.
Emma Goldman
#59. Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.
Howard Nemerov
#60. To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.
Sun Tzu
#61. War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#62. Whoever has the sword will have the earth.
Oliver North
#63. The real origins of money are to be found in crime and recompense, war and slavery, honor, debt, and redemption. That,
David Graeber
#64. Behind the world's most difficult problems are people - groups of people who don't get along together. You can blame crime, war, drugs, greed, poverty, capitalism or the collective unconscious. The bottom line is that people cause our problems.
Zaid Hassan
#65. He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company
Michael Connelly
#66. If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways.
Debasish Mridha
#67. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."
Johannes aka 'BB'
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Steen Langstrup
#68. I just can't comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn't keep your mouth shut.
Steen Langstrup
#69. During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things are happening that are great sins in the sight of God. But in that crib is the person who grew up to save us. And He did.
Billy Graham
#70. Islamic terrorism is not common crime but an act of war. Jihad is war. For the Jihadi it is a war; we must also accept it as such. Home grown Muslim militants must be treated, not just as enemy combatants but as traitors.
Ali Sina
#71. Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.
Jacque Fresco
#73. To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
#74. In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem?
Noam Chomsky
#75. The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
Tacitus
#76. As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead ... '
Christopher Flynn
#77. One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.
Chris Womersley
#78. In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.
Christopher McDougall
#80. When he shows I'll say: 'Good day, a bouquet for Mr. Hovgaard.' Then you shoot him. Understood?"
Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
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Steen Langstrup
#81. War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
#82. The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
Jacque Fresco
#83. Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.
Marty Rubin
#84. Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
Noam Chomsky
#85. I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.
Charles Barkley
#86. What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
Winston Churchill
#87. For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
Noam Chomsky
#88. Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.
Jostein Gaarder
#89. There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.
Benjamin Moser
#90. When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
Robert Fisk
#91. Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Johan Huizinga
#92. Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
Graham Greene
#93. Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
Tawni O'Dell
#94. We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
Seneca.
#95. What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
Joe Abercrombie
#97. Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members
Carter F. Smith
#98. If a war be undertaken ... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
Charles Eliot Norton
#99. Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.
Duane Hewitt
#100. What did you tell me, Jesse? Sure Jake, Stephanie will do exactly what you tell her. Sure Jake, protecting her will be a piece of cake. "
Snorting in disbelief, he added, "Being at war is safer compared to this shit, and it's a hell of a lot easier than looking after your girlfriend.
Nina D'Angelo
