Quotes about war
war people culture
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself. Tariq Ramadan
war diversity risk
The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect
war reality laughing
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.
war calling halfway
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. Ta-Nehisi Coates
war knives soup
To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. T. E. Lawrence
war army ideas
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert
war book finals
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
war winning hands
Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.
war winning men
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
warrior people secret
Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors. T. Harv Eker
war school age
I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.
war views survival
I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival T. S. Eliot
war serious doe
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
war passion justice
Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
war names people
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
war obedience instruction
We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.
war men world
War among men defiles this world.
war may ignored
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
war reality ego
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.
war experience television-news
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired. Sydney Biddle Barrows
war tired thinking
I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head. Sylvia Browne
war use weapons
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. Sylvia Earle
war unique men
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. Sydney J. Harris
war men choices
When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that. Sylvester Stallone
war thinking people
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.
war territory borders
When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
war fighting winning
The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.
war years long
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon. Susan Sontag
war health disease
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
war struggle islamic
Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And “terrorist” is a more flexible word than “communist.” It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.
war weather affair
War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.
war cutting sheep
Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage. Scott Westerfeld
war cities use
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.