Quotes about war
war numbers antiwar
That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in. Colin Powell
war president cards
President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
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But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that. Harry Dean Stanton
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We warn this is only a first step.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality. Eamon de Valera
wary
China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.
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After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. Karl Liebknecht
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War is just an effect, not a cause. Marianne Williamson
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We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional. Bill Shuster
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When you have a war going down in your neighborhood, you're not excited,
war winning stupidity
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war? Orson Scott Card
war pieces firsts
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days. Robert Anderson
war thinking age
I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.
war survivor accepting
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning. Patrick Ness
war irritation bachelors
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
war suffering careful
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
war lying winning
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
war kids shots
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war. George H. W. Bush
war literature shade
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. John le Carre
war casualties ends
Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. Kurt Vonnegut
war machines development
When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.
war school government
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.
war attractive-things littles
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
war thinking sick
Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
war character people
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
war slaughterhouse-five veteran
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
war men voice
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
war ignorance environmental
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
war taken bananas
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
war people tribes
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.
war character sick
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
war hate fighting
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.