Dreams Quote by Paddy Ashdown

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative,…

— Paddy Ashdown

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

— Dario Robleto

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions…

— Eamon de Valera

I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the…

— Dervla Kirwan

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

— Pope John Paul II

Whether it was the 9/11 attacks, Paris shooting, or the attack on the Taj, people across the world mourn the collective loss.

— Adnan Sami

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once…

— Errol Morris

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

— Simon Heffer

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts…

— Bill Ayers

“The only thing that disturbed our equanimity during the wonderful days of rest and peace were American and Russian fighter-planes that sometimes came diving…

— Hillblad (ed.), Thorolf