Quotes about war
war russia might
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon. Henry Ford
war fighting civilization
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about. Henry Ford
war fire hazards
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. Henry Ford
war believe men
I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. Mahatma Gandhi
war eggs cheesy
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose. Manfred von Richthofen
war air spirit
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. Manfred von Richthofen
war luck brain
If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. Manfred von Richthofen
war responsibility men
It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care. Mangosuthu Buthelezi
war book writing
To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin. Manly Hall
war democracy
Democracies don't go to war. Manmohan Singh
war talking weapons
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon. Mandy Patinkin
war violent-acts middle-east
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. Mandy Patinkin
war white decision
So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress. Malcolm Wallop
war thinking issues
I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history. Malcolm Muggeridge
war fighting thinking
I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war. Malcolm Muggeridge
war thinking should-have
I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster. Malcolm Muggeridge
war airplane blue
The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly. Malcolm X
war fighting essence
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption. Mahatma Gandhi
war law done
If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done. Mahatma Gandhi
war suffering offensive
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted. Mahatma Gandhi
war mahabharata futility
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Mahatma Gandhi
war trying records
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history. Mahatma Gandhi
war law might
War knows no law except that of might. Mahatma Gandhi
war mind violence
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom. Mahatma Gandhi
war government pretension
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing. Mahatma Gandhi
war violence satyagraha
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Mahatma Gandhi
war agreement opponents
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Mahatma Gandhi
warrior active nonviolence
The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active. Mahatma Gandhi
war soldier nonviolence
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war. Mahatma Gandhi