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War Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas
- My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world…
- In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a…
- Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being…
- To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than…
- I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the…
- The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people…
- Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of…
- I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because…
- It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those…
- I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War…
- To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the…
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov