“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Ernest Hemingway
“One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
Oscar Wilde
“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
Victor Hugo
“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Noah Webster
“Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.”
Senator John Kerry
“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”
Ramsey Clark
“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”
Charles Evans Hughes
