Quotes about war
war order rotten
There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order. Ralph Waldo Emerson
war character men
A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
war causes virtue
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
war civilization history
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
war men epidemics
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
war men saving-private-ryan
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
war thinking diplomats
I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat. Scott Ritter
war weapons inspectors
I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.
war iraq halt
That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
war marine fighting
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...
war military tools
The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
war fighting care
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
war games nintendo
War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
war endure has-beens
Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace. Scipio Africanus
war long understanding
More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen. Scilla Elworthy
war army government
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
war good-day firsts
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days. Saxby Chambliss
war military america
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. Lincoln Chafee
war fighting land
President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.
war thinking people
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war. Lily Tomlin
war world lasts
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope. Lin Yutang
war community wish
The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war. Li Zhaoxing
war cold cold-war
Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular. Li Peng
war vitality renewal
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope. Liam Neeson
war poverty bread
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. Lenny Bruce
war our-world generosity
Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
war people disease
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. Larry Brilliant
war men rights
A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard
war blow president
I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war. Thom Yorke
war reading thinking
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
war gun sandwiches
If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.
war numbers discipline
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay? Tertullian
war heaven humanity
Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.