Pastoral Resources

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

War is the science of destruction.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.