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Bill Moyers Quotes about War

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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a war on terror - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

Bill Moyers
War, Police, Mind
"The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

Bill Moyers
War, Land, Circles
"Moyers on Democracy" by Bill D. Moyers, (p. 26), 2008.

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

Bill Moyers
War, Gorges, Unyielding
"Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."

Bill Moyers
Running, War, Believe
Source: progressive.org

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers
War, Self, Imagination
Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.224, Anchor

Presidents are afraid to lose wars. They're afraid to be outflanked on the right by the militarists. They don't want to be seen as soft on either communism or soft on terrorism or whatever. So presidents are constantly tugged away from their domestic commitments to foreign policy.

Bill Moyers
War, Commitment, President
"Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

Bill Moyers
War, Believe, Speak
Source: progressive.org

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

Bill Moyers
Country, War, People
Source: www.pbs.org

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