Quotes about war
war disease use
I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease. Wilfred Owen
war party horizon
The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death.
war eye boys
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
war lying latin
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
war saws mud
I, too, saw God through mud
war moon men
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
war gun bells
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
war pity poetry-is
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
war book hero
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
war white guy
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. Waylon Jennings
war home fighting
The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
war office support
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern. Stephen Cambone
war track people
And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.
war years people
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.
war needs information
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.
war numbers people
It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.
war political atmosphere
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. Stephen Bayley
war oil
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil. Stephen Colbert
war world moments
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
war garden flames
Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade. Stefan Zweig
war organization speak
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
war men whole
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
war blood enemy
It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.
war fall rome
The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.
war years america
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. Spencer Bachus
war asking-questions worry
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. Thomas Pynchon
war bars crowns
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. Thomas Hardy
war good-war total-war
War makes rattling good history.
war thinking blood
To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in its own nature most violent, and which, in such cases, is a remedy only because it is violent, it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting. Languid war can do nothing which negotiation or submission will do better: and to act on any other principle is, not to save blood and money, but to squander them. Thomas B. Macaulay
war reading choices
There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.
war civilization citizens
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
war men authority-and-power
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. Thomas Hobbes
war men law
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.