Quotes about war
war men ill-will
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to. Joseph Wood Krutch
war thinking iraq
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms. Joseph Stiglitz
war soldier cost
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.
war oil iraq
We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.
war cutting america
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax relief for the wealthy.
war impact iraq
The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.
war oil iraq
The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.
war enough expensive
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive. Joseph Heller
war broke catch-22-important
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
war drug can-do
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
war government fields
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
war winning people
¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨
war writing ideas
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.
war winning differences
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
warrior approach
The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all. Joseph Campbell
war two forever
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."
war excuse crusades
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. Karl Shapiro
war iraq wmd
Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it, Karl Rove
war thinking ideas
I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].
war understanding saws
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
war fighting civilization
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions. Karl Popper
war conflict torn
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself. Karen Horney
war believe play
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole. Juliet Marillier
war past fire
Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage. John Dryden
war everyday terrorism
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor. John Mayer
war class sides
The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie. John Maynard Keynes
war benefits half
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
war earthquakes pyramids
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
war men regime-change
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. John Major
war thinking people
I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
war men years
If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
war gay black
It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals. John Lydon
war things-i-love fine-things
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.