Quotes about war
war reading men
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. Lord Byron
war seduction poor
I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
war men essence
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
war wings doors
Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last. Jim Wallis
war iraq president
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
war army men
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery. John Coleman
war textiles wrecks
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.
war slave-labor waiting
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was not economic, besides being morally wrong. Slavery was destined to be abolished, whether for economic reasons or moral reasons matters not, but the international intriguers were not going to wait for voluntary abolition to rob them of their trump card.
war agents terror
We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP. John Cole
war boys cash
Boys are the cash of war. John Ciardi
war boys cash
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
war two people
When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture. John Bradley-West
war writing thinking
I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.
war self independence
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence: John Brown
war thinking blood
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
war civil-war mars
Mars is not an aesthetic God. John Brown Gordon
war army slavery
As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.
war boys men
General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?
war loss years
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. John Bright
war self carefulness
Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self. John Buchan
war church hammers
The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.
war fighting men
Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects. Luther Burbank
war fighting past
Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it. Lupita Nyong'o
war fighting night
I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night. Lupe Fiasco
war problem afghanistan
You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.
war believe optimistic
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons. Luis Walter Alvarez
war support lasting-love
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
war justice want
The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global
war civilization intermittent
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. John Boyd Orr
war agriculture world
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
war airplane alternatives
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
war thinking agreement
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
war mad hatred
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.