Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Homer

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Homer

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Homer

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Homer

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

McG

I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.

Hunter S. Thompson

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Hunter S. Thompson

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

Hugo Grotius

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

Hugo Weaving

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.

Howard Rheingold

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

Howard Stern

I'm in a war, a cultural war.

Howard Bloom

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.

Howard Dean

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

Howard Dean

The war in Iraq was unwinnable.

Howard Dean

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

I wish that there was a unified Democratic position on the war in Iraq. I was that there was a unified American position and everybody agreed with me that we ought to be out of there yesterday. But they don't, and that's the fact. I mean, he's stating a fact about what's going on.

Howard Dean

We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took about 10 minutes.

Howard Dean

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

Ibrahim Rugova

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

Ibrahim Babangida

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Hassan Nasrallah

Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.

Hassan Nasrallah

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.

Hassan Nasrallah

As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be a factor in bringing about a true and just peace in this region. Therefore, we cannot acknowledge the existence of a state called Israel, not even far in the future, as some people have tried to suggest. Time does not cancel the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim.

Harold Nicolson

We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.

Harold Pinter

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Harold Pinter

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

James Blunt

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

James Branch Cabell

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

James Bovard

No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

James Bovard

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

Jake T. Austin

A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."