Willy Brandt Quotes

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.