Quotes about war
war stupid thinking
So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says. Veronica Roth
war makeup would-be
Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?" "Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was...
war fighting people
And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.
war fire lines
I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone. Richard Bach
war moving fall
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.
war adventure self
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.
war believe serenity
I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it. Robert Foster Bennett
war taken poetry
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? Robert Frost
war giving size
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
warrior boys men
The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like. Robert Bly
war moving thinking
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move. Rita Dove
war white people
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer. Rita Mae Brown
war responsibility holocaust
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything. Richard von Weizsaecker
war men victory-and-defeat
Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man. Richard Wagner
war enemy hours
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants Richard Eberhart
war stupid fighting
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?
war iran iraq
A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq. Richard Engel
war thinking illegal
I think war should be illegal.
war trying world
Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world. Richard E. Byrd
war battle sides
If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side. Rene Descartes
war blame shows
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit. Thucydides
war ambition evil
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
war women years
What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! Thomas Otway
war games gambling
War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game. Thomas Paine
war america revolution
If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
war order religion
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.
war taxes raised
...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes
war government extortion
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
war men blood
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?
war honorable objects
It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.
war men wish
War ought to be no man's wish.
war three-things firsts
On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.
war fighting order
I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.