Quotes about war
war support reason
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. Norman Mailer
war thinking enemy
In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are. Norman Lear
war two preparation
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty. Oscar Arias
warrior america unions
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. Oriana Fallaci
war believe soul
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
war earthquakes lost
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. Orhan Pamuk
war dark turkeys
When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.
war block two
From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks. Omar Bongo
war thinking light
I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war. Oliver Stone
war vietnam lost
I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.
war years feelings
Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.
war calling world
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
war two evil
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
war politics serious
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
war believe fighting
Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today.
war firsts innocence
The first casualty of war is innocence.
war bores organized
War? War is an organized bore. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
war appreciate southern
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
war men ambassadors
A man-of-war is the best ambassador. Oliver Cromwell
war fighting men
We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.
war skills desire
Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
war gun men
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life. Olive Schreiner
war poverty and-love
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life O. Henry
war self people
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease Octavia Butler
war people get-better
Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.
war cities burning
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning Nostradamus
war leader heirs
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
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.