Quotes about war
war enemy slaughter
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. Jeannette Rankin
war compromise no-compromise
There can be no compromise with war.
war patriotic deceit
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
war isis serious
They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS. Jeb Bush
war believe differences
This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's leadership in the world is a force for good. He does not believe that our strength is a place where security can take place. He leads from behind. He creates an environment that now we're creating the most unstable situation we've had since the World War II era.
war book reading
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another. Gary Paulsen
war circles knowing
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
war firsts casualties
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
war bananas enough
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter
warning tables cases
His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .
war cities long
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
war modern knows
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much. Frank Knox
war causes conflict
Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war. Frank Knight
war struggle rumor
In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight? Frank Capra
war pieces way
War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.
war people dying
I don't understand how people can make such a fuss about people that are happy and in love, when there's people dying of hunger and war and they don't even notice that. I really don't understand that. That makes me so angry! Frank Iero
war ignorance humanity
Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo. Frank Rich
war father rain
All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man. Frank Pittman
war unions arguing
Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union Francois Mitterrand
war history mad
Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals! George III
war science humanity
I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity
war views president
Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization. George J. Mitchell
war giving
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.] George Herbert
war thee
Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
war good-war
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
war essence
In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence. Chris Hedges
war thinking long
As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence.
war giving want
Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.
war wind enemy
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.
war perception impossible
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.
war dark years
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.
war self like-love
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.
war thinking swings
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.