Memorial Day Sayings

I am armed to the teeth. I have a small army. I have ex-military, ex-police, mercenaries from South Africa.

The body is a battlefield.

The United States is a militarized state, and its foreign policy is driven by the interests of the military-industrial complex.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

When an army is once formed, it is always to be feared.

Egypt is going towards the unknown. Not one Egyptian is able to reach an understanding with another Egyptian ... The army is nothing ... Egypt is nothing. It is not a popular revolt.

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.

For, when a ship is floating calmly on a smooth sea, and the mariners are thinking of nothing but the voyage, if a sudden storm should strike it, and the ship should be driven by the wind, it is not the ship which is moving, but the sea.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up to the top of the mountain. We can see the promised land, but how to get there we do not know.

Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen dead men strewn on the ground. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned - Everywhere is war - Me say war.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent 10,000 men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My husband was incarcerated for seven years and seven months, and it was one of the military that shot him. But I am no longer just the widow of Ninoy. I am the President of the Philippines.