Quotes about war
war black mind
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind. John T. Flynn
war gmos firsts
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
war charity matter
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. John Stuart Mill
war enemy-of-progress evil
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.
war power libertarian-party
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
war government numbers
In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined. John Shattuck
war devil chaplains
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain. John Ray
war fighting economy
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. John Ralston Saul
war moral-high-ground america
America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends. John Olver
war islamic iraq
President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.
war iraq decision
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
war assessment iraq
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
war book details
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value. James Lee Burke
war pyramids top-down
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. James Hunter
war clueless mean
I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check. James Howe
war cutting past
A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever . James Rollins
war want murder
Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. James Russell Lowell
war kind christ
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
war house mind
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
war heart sometimes
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
war views people
The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment. James Q. Wilson
war ignorance years
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture CO₂, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II. The stakes, for all life on the planet, surpass those of any previous crisis. The greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable. James Hansen
war survival victory
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack. James Forrestal
war lying europe
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
war military mean
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
war recovery europe
Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world. James F. Byrnes
war cost bears
Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
war people vietnam
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. James Fallows
war wealth tease
The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.
war simple feelings
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. James Fenton
war marine important
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, James F. Cooper
war destiny men
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
warning painful spite
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change. Laurence J. Peter