Quotes about war
war europe important
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? Zbigniew Brzezinski
war self luxury
With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.
war judgement cold
We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.
war stupid thinking
I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"
war world ends
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.
war blue earth
The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing Yuri Gagarin
war important today
The most important thing today is to stop US wars. Yuri Kochiyama
war conventions geneva-convention
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. Yoweri Museveni
war vietnam april
In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs. Zach Braff
war bad-ass soldier
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell! William Halsey
war air sea
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
war world world-war-2
Kill Japs, kills Japs, kill more Japs!
war government would-be
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. William H. Seward
war slavery bondage
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
war slave states
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
war degrees doe
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature. William Dean Howells
war blood sorrow
The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
war drug degrees
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. William E. Gladstone
war pestilence drink
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
war home fighting
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. Wendell Willkie
war men people
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
war development world
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal. Wendell Berry
war alive agitation
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. Wendell Phillips
war reading men
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
war thunder niagara
War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
war government people
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.
war book reading
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
war heart terrible
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
war men mind
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
war dark winter
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
war atrocities-committed asking
Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side. And I am no longer able to participate in the assumption that atrocities committed by remote control are less objectionable than those committed at arm's length. I am most concerned with American obstacles to peace because I am an American.
war differences risk
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.
war people enemy
This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.