Quotes about war
war failure ignorance
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. James A. Michener
war battle cost
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid. James A. Garfield
war home doors
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
war fate jewels
A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
war ideas world
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
war people baltimore
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. Jada Pinkett Smith
warhol remembered
The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me! Jacqueline Susann
war thinking interesting
I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead! Jacqueline Winspear
war past historical
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.
war thinking people
I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.
war mean army
It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."
war endure comes-and-goes
Wars come and go; politics endure. Jacqueline Carey
warrior love-is blood
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.
war men fine-things
Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for Say it isn't true There always has been and always will be war Jackson Browne
war nuclear remember
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. Jack Scalia
war people world
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees. Christopher Heyerdahl
war groups conservative
I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position. Christopher Hitchens
war iraq als
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
war hate winning
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.
war risk east
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
war thinking enough
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
war cancer stupidity
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.
war fighting violence
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.
war cutting animal
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma... Gary Snyder
war differences world
There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war. Gary Zukav
war issues culture
All the culture war issues will be settled by the court. Gary Bauer
war blow wind
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. Garet Garrett
war world want
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
war moving civilization
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized. Gao Xingjian
war wife switzerland
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure. Fritz Kreisler
war confused army
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused
war political development
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments. Fritz Sauckel
war soldier world
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.