Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Quotes

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

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

This will be a war of extermination.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

I do think - I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this - that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think they're evil.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

The one thing I don't understand is war.