Quotes about war
war holiness holy
Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel. Friedrich Nietzsche
war history age
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
war ideas age
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
war causes good-war
It is the good war that hallows every cause.
war men light
A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
war men feelings
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish.
war body shepherds
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
war lying responsibility
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else. George Bernard Shaw
war world better-place
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
war army fighting
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.
war romance heroism
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
war doe morality
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
war notion disarmament
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
warning stage figures
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
war vices essentials
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
war fighting vegetarian-diet
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
war mean progress-of-society
All progress means war with society.
war party animal
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party...
warrior forgive-me forgiving
Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue. Gena Showalter
war world today
Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance. Galeazzo Ciano
war blood soil
We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood Gamal Abdel Nasser
war blood challenges
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
war israel issues
We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.
warning canaries mines
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. Galway Kinnell
war writing home
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages. Fredric Jameson
war waging-war rate
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. Fredrik Bajer
war two affair
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
war venture cabinets
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
war brave-new-world thinking
I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into. Freeman Dyson
war mean winning
Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.
war mean nuclear
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
war teenager miracle
When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind of stuff. We thought it would be a biological war. Fortunately it wasn't and, but it's because the danger is still there and by some miracle we escaped all that, so you never can tell what it going to happen, but biology certainly could be even worse than physics and chemistry.
war heart airplane
Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of out foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. ...I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." ...Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.