“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”
“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”
“The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble, and wonderful, and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the war against war. But it is always hopeless and quixotic too. ”
“We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.”
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
“He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.”