Quotes about war
war reality thinking
I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals. Ismail Haniyeh
warrior blood oppression
We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs. Ismail Haniyeh
war years june
When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences. Ismail Haniyeh
war years careers
The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was at odds with some those who were Black nationalists. Yet when feminists attempted to end my career and leave me as literary road kill, it was the Black nationalists who came to my rescue. Ishmael Reed
war needs sparks
It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that. Imogen Heap
war world way
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine. Ilka Chase
war mean winning
I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. Imelda Marcos
war fighting promise
The United States initially poured money and arms into Pakistan in the hope of building a major fighting force that could assist in defending Asia against communism. Pakistan repeatedly failed to live up to its promises to provide troops for any of the wars the United States fought against communist forces, instead using American weapons in its wars with India. Husain Haqqani
war islamic civilization
Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few. Husain Haqqani
war reason treason
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason. I. F. Stone
war mean play
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war. I. F. Stone
war vietnam world
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
war believe fighting
I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
war men firsts
They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging. Gloria Steinem
war dirty army
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. Gloria Steinem
war mean political
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system Giorgio Agamben
war taught glamorous
War taught me that not everything is glamorous. Giorgio Armani
wardrobe
Our wardrobe needs to be more versatile, and, above all, it needs to be comfortable. Giorgio Armani
war president plans
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan. Geraldine Ferraro
war years iraq
This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops Geraldo Rivera
war iraq president
The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization, Harry Reid
war believe iraq
I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday, Harry Reid
war stupid-liberal lost
This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything. Harry Reid
war trying world
We are trying to prevent a third world war. Harry S Truman
war absence
The absence of war is not peace. Harry S Truman
war together want
If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace. Harry S Truman
war rivers kansas
It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now when Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas river they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally. Harry S Truman
war believe destiny
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes. Harry S Truman
war army giving
He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time. Harry S Truman
war korea cold
If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another. Harry S Truman
war men hands
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States. Harry S Truman
war struggle winning
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it. Harry S Truman
war gun world
The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us. Harry S Truman