Quotes about war
war people enjoy
The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it. Ellen Glasgow
war choices horror
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
war hate world
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.
war civilization evil
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?
war littles killing
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
war bait terrorism
The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation. Eric Alterman
war europe world
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. Emily Greene Balch
war responsibility long
The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
war bayonets contrition
A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead. Emily Dickinson
war wish want
Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war. Emil Ludwig
war order atmosphere
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. Ellen Tauscher
war iraq may
I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier. Elizabeth Vargas
war
And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again. Samantha Smith
war knives soup
Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife. Edward Thomas
war mistake tragedy
At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. Holly Black
war wind stories
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War. Herman Wouk
war toys strange
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
war ends
... a war always ends.
war people watches
War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
war wind looking-good
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
war eye disrespect
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. Hermann Hesse
war mind annihilation
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
war fall germany
In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
war past silence
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past. . .while we silence the rebels of the present. Henry Steele Commager
war government judging
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.
war tragedy cost
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war…
war battle done
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
war writing virginia
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!
warrior autumn blood
Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.
war arrows deeds
Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.
war heart mind
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind Henrik Ibsen
war adversity troll
To live is to war with trolls.
war writing heart
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.