Quotes about war
war thinking creating
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world. Stephen Gaghan
war who-i-am
War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am. Stephen Farrell
war thinking teens
It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.
war rose england
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. Stephen Gardiner
war ideas greek
I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense. Stephen Fry
war
I am against all war. Sophia Loren
war injustice-and-oppression justified
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. Rutherford B. Hayes
war believe umpires
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
war army two
There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.
war army men
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched.--Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery--in fact, its only enemy.
war patriotic looks
General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.
war men prisoner
If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.
war cutting government
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.
war selfish people
There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.
war feelings promotion
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.
war army men
No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!
war men citizens
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
war civilization faces
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait. Ruth Benedict
war play earth
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.
war examination bears
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits
war cost humans
War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest. Ross Kemp
war wrestling mud
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. Ross Perot
war believe important
I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth. Ron Kovic
war peaceful answers
War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.
war cost subsidies
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations. Ron Kind
war thinking law
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. Roger Nash Baldwin
war hands three
The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three. Roger McGough
war thinking everyday
Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.
war oil rising
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. Roger Mahony
war islamic believe
I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense. Roger Stone
war president able
The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war. Roger Sherman
war men plies
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. Roger Williams
war done murder
I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them. Sam Shepard