Quotes about war
war science religion
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated. Howard Nemerov
war mistake stupid
I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo. Horst Faas
war iraq horrible
When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens. Hosni Mubarak
war two evil
In love there are two evils: war and peace. Horace
war atheism bars
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.
war wine hardship
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
war wine want
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
war people may
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people. Hannah Arendt
war practice world
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
war sometimes ends
Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war. Guy Gavriel Kay
war patriotic eggs
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Guy de Maupassant
war
He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it. Samantha Smith
war lying power
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. Friedrich Nietzsche
war causes good-war
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
war holiness holy
Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.
war history age
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
war ideas age
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
war causes good-war
It is the good war that hallows every cause.
war men light
A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
war men feelings
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish.
war body shepherds
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
war lying responsibility
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else. George Bernard Shaw
war world better-place
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
war army fighting
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.
war romance heroism
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
war doe morality
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
war notion disarmament
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
warning stage figures
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
war vices essentials
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
war fighting vegetarian-diet
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
war mean progress-of-society
All progress means war with society.
war party animal
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party...
warrior forgive-me forgiving
Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue. Gena Showalter