Quotes about war
war men fine-things
Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for Say it isn't true There always has been and always will be war Jackson Browne
war nuclear remember
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. Jack Scalia
war people world
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees. Christopher Heyerdahl
war groups conservative
I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position. Christopher Hitchens
war iraq als
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
war hate winning
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.
war risk east
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
war thinking enough
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
war cancer stupidity
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.
war fighting violence
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.
war cutting animal
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma... Gary Snyder
war differences world
There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war. Gary Zukav
war issues culture
All the culture war issues will be settled by the court. Gary Bauer
war blow wind
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. Garet Garrett
war world want
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
war moving civilization
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized. Gao Xingjian
war wife switzerland
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure. Fritz Kreisler
war confused army
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused
war political development
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments. Fritz Sauckel
war soldier world
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
war men soul
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul. Fulton J. Sheen
war selfishness world
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
war thinking rights
The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.
war mean fighting
The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.
war men mind
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
war battle coins
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles. Francois Rabelais
war breathing passing-away
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
war bridges enemy
Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]
war doctors patient
The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate. George C. Marshall
war mean blood
The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.
war political world
The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
war japan victory
No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.
war winning lessons-to-be-learned
A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.