Just war theory Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Just war theory.
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“Right of revolution”
“Conscientious objector”
“Justa bella quibus necessaria.”
“War is something absurd, useless, that nothing can justify.”
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, no matter how justified, is not a crime.”
“Justum est bellum, quibus necessarium; et pia arma, quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur opes.”
“War can only be abolished through war … in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
“The war in Afghanistan against apocalyptic terrorism qualifies in my understanding as the first truly just war since World War II.”
“War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.”
“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign…. Secondly, a just cause…. Thirdly … a rightful intention.”
“To justify going to war...that is to establish jus ad bellum in the first place, requires showing that what one would be doing by waging it is justified.”
“The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.”
“Orthodox Christianity recognizes harms from both involuntary and “justifiable” homicide, including homicide in a just war, both of which incur excommunication not as punishment, but as spiritual therapy (Basil, 1983, Canon 13, pp. 801-802).”
“But, say they, the wise man will wage Just Wars. As if he would not all the rather lament the necessity of just wars, if he remembers that he is a man; for if they were not just he would not wage them, and would therefore be delivered from all wars.”
“When people ask me what I did in the war, I tell them I did the same thing we all did. We fought for what was right. I've come to realize, there's nothing good about war... But there is good in why you fight wars. And we were all fighting for the same thing.”
“It is presumptively wrong to do violence to innocent persons...A necessary condition of the justifiable pursuit of any objectives in war by any means whatever.. is that one be justified in engaging in such killing and violence in the first place.”
“.מלחמת שלום הגליל היתה מהמוצדקות ביותר במלחמות ישראל
• Translation: Peace for Galilee's war was one of the most justified of Israel's wars.”
“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.”
“It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. * * *
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”