Famous Quotes

"The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues."

Bianca Jagger on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Bianca Jagger

• "Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war."

• "The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery."

• "In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words."

• "In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words."

• "I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."