Quotes about war
war world firsts
If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense. Jawaharlal Nehru
war fighting victory
Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
war causes excuse
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse. Jasper Fforde
war ends
Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to? Jason Russell
war wake-up world
I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war. Jason Mraz
war weapons unhappiness
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
war wish should
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war. Hippocrates
war school total-war
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
war believe president
Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton
war isis organization
Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.
war thinking islam
I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.
war effort support
I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.
war fighter propaganda
You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.
war successful giving
Donald [Trump] never tells you what he would do. Would he have started a war? Would he have bombed Iran? If he's going to criticize a deal that has been very successful in giving us access to Iranian facilities that we never had before, then he should tell us what his alternative would be.
war past soldier
On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.
war party president
As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of enforcement officers. We will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment new good paying jobs since World War II.
war mistake thinking
I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.
war online
We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace.
war blow water
I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.
war good-times having-a-good-time
[Donald Trump] even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well, you know, that's fine have a good time, folks.
war long terrorism
Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.
war fighting lasts
We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.
war opportunity giving
My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs program since World War II, jobs in infrastructure and advanced manufacturing.
war home reality
If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation...It doesn't matter. We bring our people home.
war people purpose
We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression.
war discipline firsts
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. Herbert Read
war wish purpose
It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event
war home army
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political “rights”) warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home.
war hippie hair
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace. Herbert Marcuse
war taken causes
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression. Herbert Hoover
war influence proportion
I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.
war presidential maintenance
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.
war gun men
We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.