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“Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?”
Colman McCarthy“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a ‘liberal’ state is at war with a ‘totalitarian’ state, then the war is justified. The beneficent nature of a government was assumed to give rightness to the wars it wages. ...Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were liberals, which gave credence to their words exalting the two world wars, just as the liberalism of Truman made going into Korea more acceptable and the idealism of Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society gave an early glow of righteousness to the war in Vietnam. What the experience of Athens suggests is that a nation may be relatively liberal at home and yet totally ruthless abroad. Indeed, it may more easily enlist its population in cruelty to others by pointing to the advantages at home. An entire nation is made into mercenaries, being paid with a bit of democracy at home for participating in the destruction of life abroad.”
Howard Zinn, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology“Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.”
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations“Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.”
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
Erasmus, Adagia. Lateinisch / Deutsch“I'm just warning you," Neeve said. "Watch out for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.”
Maggie Stiefvater“Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots,” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.”
Brynn Kelly, Edge of Truth“In her head is warAll the time just warI put her to bedI bring peace to the world”
Darnell Lamont Walker“Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?”
Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt