Quotes about war
war responsibility iraq
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq Barbara Mikulski
war presidential democracy
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
war firsts
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
war world saving
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.
war taken eggs
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy. Arthur Koestler
war men epidemics
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.
war two united-states
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression. Arthur Miller
war men views
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
war men political
Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. Art Hoppe
war literature world
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism. Diane Sawyer
war world want
I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box. Diane Kruger
war struggle confusion
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.
war resources valuable
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable. Dennis Weaver
war support earth
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
war want politics
He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me. Dennis Rodman
war reading people
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. Dennis Prager
war confused vietnam
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.
war europe civil-war
The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war
war fighting men
The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.] Demosthenes
war anxiety masters
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
war tree might
It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war. Denis Johnson
war people sovereign
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people. Denis Diderot
war taken fighting
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse. Deborah Tannen
war thinking cuban-missile-crisis
We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked. Dean Rusk
war taken joy
We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. Dean Koontz
war doctors nurse
The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease. Dikembe Mutombo
war israel enemy
The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
war reality names
Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the name of God, questioning whose God is the best God and whose exploration of this deeper reality is the best explanation. That defies everything that this deeper reality teaches. Edgar Mitchell
war god-of-war
All the gods are dead except the god of war. Eldridge Cleaver
war suffering boomerang
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. Eleanor Roosevelt
war fighting people
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
war army opportunity
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?
war safety people
There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.