Quotes about war
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. Hillary Clinton
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.
war people presidential
There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.
war dirty pride
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken... F. Scott Fitzgerald
war men generations
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" --
war half world
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. Evelyn Waugh
war thinking should-have
"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"
war struggle alive
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
war fighting thinking
Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?' Eugene Jarecki
war drug black
What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
war men boys
How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war. Esther Forbes
war wages anarchy
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file Ernst Junger
war men hatred
It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
war character doubt
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word. Ernst Haeckel
war world reign
The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.
war fighting lines
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out. Ernie Pyle
war thinking might
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
war men giants
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
war soldier literature
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
war soldier lines
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
war black mind
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
war rain boys
I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
war taken history
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought. Ernest Hemingway
war nice wine
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
war race color
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.