Category: war

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

I did a production of ‘Journey’s End,’ an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, ‘You know, you could really do this if you wanted … Read more

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.

I’m sure it is, I’m not for any kind of war, we’ve been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war… I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it’s too late.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.