Challenges Quote by Howard Zinn

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice…

— Mike Hoffman

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

— Pope Francis

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something…

— Steven Erikson

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

— Edward Gibbon

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

War is merely a continuation of politics,

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

— Livy

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order…

— Anonymous

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political…

— Mao Zedong

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just…

— John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

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…

— Alexander Cockburn