Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Lenin

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

Walter Bagehot

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Benjamin

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Walter Cronkite

I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.

Walter Cronkite

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

Virginia Woolf

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Virginia Woolf

We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that . . . they only have to open the door to make themselves felt. There is in them some untamed ferocity perpetually at war with the accepted order of things.

William Beveridge

Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

William Beveridge

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

William Blum

Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

William Blum

Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

William Blum

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

William Blake

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

William Blake

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

Werner Herzog

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Werner Herzog

Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.

Walker Percy

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Wallace Stevens

Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.

Samuel Beckett

Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

Samuel Fuller

Surviving is the only glory in war

Salmon P. Chase

States Rights died at Appomattox.

Salman Rushdie

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives...

Salman Rushdie

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

Salman Rushdie

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

Salman Rushdie

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

Salman Rushdie

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

Salman Rushdie

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.

Salman Rushdie

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

Wangari Maathai

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Wangari Maathai

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

Wangari Maathai

For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.

Jostein Gaarder

Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.