Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pilger

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

John Pilger

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

John Pilger

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

John Podhoretz

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.

John Podhoretz

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Martin McGuinness

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.

Martin Luther

A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

Martin Luther

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Martin Luther

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Martin Luther

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

Martin Luther

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

Martin Luther

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Martin Luther

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Mark Steyn

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

Mark Steyn

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

Mark Steyn

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

Mark Steyn

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

Nick Lampson

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

Nick Cave

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Nancy Astor

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

Nana Mouskouri

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

P. J. O'Rourke

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

P. J. O'Rourke

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

P. J. O'Rourke

Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.

Ozzy Osbourne

There are no unwinnable wars.

Ozzy Osbourne

If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.

Ozzy Osbourne

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

Ozzy Osbourne

I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

Ozzy Osbourne

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

P. G. Wodehouse

The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

Ovid

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Paul Nitze

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.