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I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!
George W. Bushborn 1946The Bullhorn Speech (2001)
- America
History has called America and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility and our privilege to fight freedom’s fight.
George W. Bushborn 1946The Axis of Evil (2002)
- Freedom
We must fight those who are committed to destruction, without replicating their destructiveness. Understanding how to fight in this way is the task and the bind of a nonviolent ethics and politics.
Judith Butlerborn 1956The Force of Nonviolence (2020), Ch. 1, p. 64
Nonviolence does not necessarily emerge from a pacific or calm part of the soul. Very often it is an expression of rage, indignation, and aggression.
Judith Butlerborn 1956The Force of Nonviolence (2020), Introduction, p. 21
- Anger
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Lord Byron1788–1824The Destruction of Sennacherib (1815)In context
War, war is still the cry, ‘War even to the knife!’
Lord Byron1788–1824Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818), Canto the FirstIn context
On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory, or the grave!
Thomas Campbell1777–1844Hohenlinden (1802)In context
- Courage
Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests.
Albert Camus1913–1960Editorial in Combat (8 August 1945), after Hiroshima; translated in Between Hell and Reason (1991)
- Technology
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024
- America
Short-circuiting the long-established principles of patient negotiation leads to war, not peace.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Farewell Address (January 1981)
It is evil things that we will be fighting against⁠—brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution⁠—and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
Neville Chamberlain1869–1940Broadcast from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street (3 September 1939)
- Good & Evil
We have to kill one another just to satisfy that accursed madman. I wish he could burn in Hell for as many years as he is costing lives.
Neville Chamberlain1869–1940Statement (15 October 1939), quoted in Keith Feiling, Neville Chamberlain (1946; 1970), p. 419
My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.
Neville Chamberlain1869–1940Remarks at 10 Downing Street on his return from Munich (30 September 1938)
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936