Quotes about war
war people trying
I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world. Larry Niven
war blue pigs
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. Larry McMurtry
warrior long alive
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
war giving doubt
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.
war dieting
The dieting wars have got to stop. Lady Gaga
war humanity good-things
This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity. Lew Wallace
war forever news
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever. Lewis H. Lapham
war thinking chance
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
war educational book
As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
war sides blame
I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it. Lewis Black
war thinking talking
Here's why I think there's something a little odd with George Bush. Because a lot of the times when he speaks, his words don't match his face. Something is askew. You can't talk about the war with a smile on your face. He does it constantly. If you're the President, you should go We're going to talk about the war, I must have a frowny face. The only time you can smile when you're talking about the war in Iraq is when you go, Well, two Iraqis walk into a bar, hahaha.
war honor battle
All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor. Leon Uris
war fighting night
The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade. Joseph Williams
war constitution states
If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede. Joseph Story
war mean important
It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.
war republic should
It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.
war army equality
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler? Josephine Baker
war men want
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. Joseph Wood Krutch
war men ill-will
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
war thinking iraq
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms. Joseph Stiglitz
war soldier cost
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.
war oil iraq
We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.
war cutting america
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax relief for the wealthy.
war impact iraq
The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.
war oil iraq
The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.
war enough expensive
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive. Joseph Heller
war broke catch-22-important
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
war drug can-do
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
war government fields
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
war winning people
¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨
war writing ideas
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.
war winning differences
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
warrior approach
The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all. Joseph Campbell