War Quote by Garry Wills Download Open image “Only the winners decide what were war crimes.” — Garry Wills ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare War War crimes
War is a crime which involves all other crimes. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
