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An unjust peace is better than a just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war. -- Charles James Fox
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. -- A. J. P. Taylor
If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. -- Thomas Paine
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful. -- Ben Salmon
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics. -- Piers Morgan
If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war. -- Muhammad Ali
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. -- George Pataki
It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war. -- John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people. -- Howard Zinn
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience. -- Alexander Cockburn
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. -- Camille Paglia
Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place. -- Jill Scott
Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom. -- Joe Lieberman
Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies. -- Mairead Corrigan
I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort. -- Cornel West
We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence. -- John Lennon
Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality. -- Marco Rubio
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable. -- Kurt Vonnegut
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
War is just demographics in a hurry. -- Gary Brecher
War is just an effect, not a cause. -- Marianne Williamson
War is just one more big government program. -- Joseph Sobran
One makes war to win, not because it's just. -- Michel Foucault
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out. -- Joseph Heller
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege. -- William J. Clinton
war is not just a victory or loss ... People die. -- Maya Lin
War is just to those to whom war is necessary. -- Livy
War takes so many more casualties than just the dead. -- Katherine L. Walker
In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution. -- A.J. Darkholme
Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours. -- Sari Nusseibeh
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. -- Seneca the Younger
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name. -- Moshe Dayan
war doesn't decide who is right - it just decides who is left. -- Sweety Shinde
The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop. -- Marianne Williamson
The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. -- Merrill McPeak
When the war begins, talking is insanity , Just take your weapon and kill humanity! -- Arash Pakravesh
World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. -- David Ayer
It just seems like the culture war is over, and the gay kissers won. -- Bill Maher
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life. -- Joss Whedon
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. -- Christiane Amanpour
I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match. -- Boris Becker
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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace. -- Robert Browning
Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. -- Gustave de Molinari
War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble. -- Neal Stephenson
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. -- Jennifer Gilmore
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. -- Smedley Butler
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest. -- Rick Atkinson
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. -- Andrew Sullivan
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. -- Ernest Hemingway
Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money. -- Andre Suares
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. -- William Shakespeare
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. -- Joan Rivers
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. -- George W. Bush
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. -- Victor Hugo
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. -- Chuck Jones
More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory. -- Teresa R. Funke
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. -- Douglas MacArthur
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. -- Myles Standish
There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel. -- David D. Flowers
Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we? -- Dennis Miller
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. -- Dan Rather
Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish? -- Don Feder
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. -- Amity Shlaes
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. -- Francis Bacon
The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong. -- Howard Dean
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. -- Charles Darwin
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting. -- Karl Marlantes
Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones. -- Neil Young
I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension. -- Kesha
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You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere. -- M.I.A.
I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed. -- Robert Cray
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. -- Ernie Pyle
The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. -- Stefan Molyneux
I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride. -- Lana Del Rey
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. -- Nathaniel Altman
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. -- Pope John Paul II
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. -- Arthur Helps
The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment. -- Jill Greenberg
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win. -- Lawrence Lessig
You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home. -- Will Rogers
Nobody saw the struggle they just see the reward They focused on the peace but they never saw the war -- August Alsina
This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks? -- Lowkey
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war. -- Enrique Iglesias
Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them. -- Barry White
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too. -- Patty Hearst
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury -- Lee Myung-bak
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war. -- Emily Robison
If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend. -- Richard Jeni
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war. -- Emily Robison
During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. -- Tariq Ali
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it. -- John Lennon
Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical. -- James Norton
A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees. -- Alfred Capus
It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas. -- Ian Watson
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there. -- Tilda Swinton
I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. -- Joe Abercrombie
Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me. -- Bob Hope
War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.' -- George W. Bush
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. -- Aristotle
My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness. -- Katy Perry
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. -- Roseanne Barr
Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation. -- Catherine Camus
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. -- Freeman Dyson
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity. -- David Lynch
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers. -- Blaise Pascal
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. -- Henry David Thoreau
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war. -- Mark Twain

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