Quotes about war
war men battle
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. George R. R. Martin
war men hands
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
war believe germany
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. George Carlin
war patriarchal-society preparing
All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.
war men class
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.
war cancer america
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!
war fighting civilization
The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. Gene Roddenberry
war ocean europe
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. Gene Tierney
war way causes
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
war hands poodles
In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands. Gene Simmons
war what-if danger
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? Garry Wills
war winner crime
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
war black purpose
Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things. Garry Winogrand
war fall history
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war. Frederic Raphael
war years lasts
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
war rights russia
It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war. Frederick Forsyth
war light government
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun. I could live for the slave; John Brown could die for him. The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery. Frederick Douglass
war men helping
A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men to help suppress it.
war fall history
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
war civilization territory
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
war slavery may
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
war slavery republic
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
war mean men
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.
war home people
And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us. Frederick Buechner
war believe thinking
I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians. Frank Sinatra
war guy world
I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.
war architecture environment
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. Frank Gehry
war cities want
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
war thoughtful iraq
War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end. George F. Kennan
war tools foreign-policy
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
war passion together
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. George Eliot
war military tactics
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. Ferdinand Foch
war ideas political
A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.