Administration Quote by Ray McGovern

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery

— Bertrand Russell

“A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that mankind has…

— Michel Templet

“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if…

— Howard Zinn

“War crimes, you say? No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War…

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained…

— Tony Blair

I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable…

— N. T. Wright

For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are…

— Jimmy Carter

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone…

— Jesse Ventura

“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally…

— Anonymous

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking means addressing…

— Peggy Haymes