Quotes about war
war fighting giving
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it. Robert Dallek
war president doctrine
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.
war writing reflection
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience. Robert D. Kaplan
war chinese faces
What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
war military long
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
war desire photographer
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business. Robert Capa
war missing invasion
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
war wish unemployment
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
war hate goes-on
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
war actresses dangerous
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)
war cameras best-picture
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)
war sleepwalking
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. Robert Byrd
war thinking horrible
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences
war mistake iraq
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
war lying kids
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. Richard Price
war lying kids
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.
war individual made
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out. Richard Cobden
war doors agreement
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
war talking wings
The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas. Tucker Carlson
war sunshine feet
I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.
war feet soldier
Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.
war world finding-peace
Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets. Tupac Shakur
war rain rap
You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
war soldier comes-and-goes
As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal
war heart thug
Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.
war thinking rapper
And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.
war fighting rapper
Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.
war poor
They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.
war father men
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. Trevor Nunn
war historical musical
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.
war people sick
I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented. Tracy Morgan
war blood half
Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars. Saul Bellow
war evil goes-on
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.