I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have pro...
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, '...
Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or ...
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fou...
'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward ...
Vicomte de Valmont: Now, yes or no? It's up to you, of course. I will merely confine myself to remarking that a "no" will be regarded as a declaration of war. A single word is all that's required. Marquise de Merteuil: All right. War.
[last lines] Yuri Orlov: You know who's going to inherit the Earth? Arms dealers. Because everyone else is too busy killing each other. That's the secret to survival. Never go to war. Especially with yourself.
Yuri Orlov: The primary market was Africa, Eleven major conflicts involving twenty three countries in less than a decade. A gunrunner's wet dream. At the time the West couldn't care less, they had a white war in what was left of Yugoslavia.
Giovanni Cappa: I learned this from Charley Lucky during the World War II. Charlie: Oh? What did he do? Giovanni Cappa: What did he do? He was there, that's what he did.
Fletcher: He's [Josey] Fletcher: has got the first move And I'd tell him. Josey Wales: What's that? Fletcher: That the war is over. Josey Wales: I reckon we all lost a little bit in that damn war.
[Using the Force, Yoda effortlessly frees the X-Wing from the bog] Luke: I don't, I don't believe it. Yoda: That is why you fail.
Luke: I want my lamp back. I'm gonna need it to get out of this slimy mudhole. Yoda: Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is!
Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart. Princess Leia: I take it back.
Luke: But tell me why I can't... Yoda: No, no, there is no why. Nothing more will I teach you today. Clear your mind of questions.
Boba Fett: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me. Darth Vader: The Empire will compensate you, if he dies. Put him in.
[after R2D2 is spit out by a swamp creature on Dagobah - the line is changed in the Special Edition] Luke: You're lucky you don't taste very good.
[the Millennium Falcon, under siege, won't start] Princess Leia: [sarcastic] Would it help if I got out and pushed? Han Solo: [also sarcastic] It might!
Darth Vader: [having cornered Luke during their lightsaber battle] You are beaten. It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroyed as Obi-Wan did.
C-3PO: I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me. [R2-D2 bleeps an inquiry] C-3PO: Of course I've looked better.
Luke: How far away is Yoda? Will it take us long to get there? Yoda: Not far. Yoda not far. Patience. Soon you will be with him.
[Han reveals his clever plan of escape] Princess Leia: You have your moments. Not many of them, but you do have them.
