Quotes about war
war lessons humans
I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life . Maya Angelou
war thinking bombs
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink. Mattie Stepanek
war joy planets
We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war. Marianne Williamson
war sacrifice winning
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. Mark Lawrence
war men irony
It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.
war long finals
We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that? Michael Herr
war thinking color
If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war,
war childhood vietnam
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
war identity roles
Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.
war stupid guy
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World War II. I agree with that thesis. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd or stupid they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy. Michael Hastings
war sacrifice reality
And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight.
war team giving
An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].
war media government
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
war fighting wmd
If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.
war thinking perspective
I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
war goes-on way
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all. Michael Haneke
war trying different
Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.
war people vietnam
The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. Michael Caine
war father hero
When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
war blood greek
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots. Melina Mercouri
war mean fighting
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. Martin Van Creveld
war people desert
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.
war world cards
A world without war is not in the cards.
war men president
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Michael Moore
war past average
Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.
warrior boys hair
The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair. He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing. Just sat. Michael Grant
war today music-is
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power. Michael Franti
war fighting start-wars
Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.
war world want
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak. Michael Apted
war sea land
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
war bloodshed threat
No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats. Menachem Begin
war military agony
The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.
war forever shalom
No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.