Quotes about war
war evil literature
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. George Orwell
war civilization cities
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
war battle eton
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
war lying drug
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
war atheism would-be
A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
war survival consciousness
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
war party intelligent
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.
war party government
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."
war culture principal
The organizing principal for any culture is War.
war becoming nineteen
The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.
war practice people
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.
war two months
During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.
war eye beer
You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!
war party ignorance
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
war struggle fighting
A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for. George R. R. Martin
war sides
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
war men battle
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
war men hands
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
war believe germany
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. George Carlin
war patriarchal-society preparing
All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.
war men class
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.
war cancer america
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!
war fighting civilization
The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. Gene Roddenberry
war ocean europe
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. Gene Tierney
war way causes
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
war hands poodles
In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands. Gene Simmons
war what-if danger
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? Garry Wills
war winner crime
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
war black purpose
Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things. Garry Winogrand
war fall history
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war. Frederic Raphael
war years lasts
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
war rights russia
It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war. Frederick Forsyth
war light government
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun. I could live for the slave; John Brown could die for him. The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery. Frederick Douglass