Quotes about war
war book law
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. Mahatma Gandhi
war people matter
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
war trying records
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
war law might
War knows no law except that of might.
war mind violence
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
war government pretension
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
war violence satyagraha
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
warrior evil leaving
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
war agreement opponents
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
war men law
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
warrior active nonviolence
The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
war soldier nonviolence
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
war world india
India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
war party troops
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted. John A. Logan
war science destruction
War is the science of destruction. John Abbott
war
In general, our generals were outgeneralled. John Adams
war mean blood
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.
war lying essence
The history of our Revolution will be one continued lie from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprang General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod - and thenceforward these two conducted all the policies, negotiations, legislatures, and war.
war understanding drug
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
war guilt greater
There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.
war father mean
Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War. Jackson Katz
war animal men
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, and there are no values, until men want to do both. If an anarchist wants only freedom, whatever the cost, he will prefer the jungle of man at war with man. And if a tyrant wants only social order, he will create the totalitarian state. Jacob Bronowski
war government people
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war. Harvey Fierstein
war civil-war wells
Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. George B. McClellan
war land magic
By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.
war home paper
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!
war blood cost
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.
war intelligent white
The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now.
war soldier conflict
There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians. George Armstrong Custer
war soldier enemy
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
war groups excluded
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups. George Ayittey
war preparation degrees
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. James Madison
war enemy age
Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.