Quotes about war
war nazism slavery
War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless. Rush Limbaugh
war mind farce
Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.
war thinking leader
The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and them empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
war president united-states
We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.
war believe japan
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on Poverty has cost us 70 % more than the total price tag for defeating both Germany and Japan in World War II, after adjusting for inflation. Many believe that Welfare has destroyed millions of families and cost a huge portion of our national wealth in the process.
war men rights
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now. Roy Wilkins
war hate ideas
If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering. W. S. Merwin
war reality people
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. Virginia Postrel
war loss past
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes. Virginia Foxx
war agency media
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. William Colby
war men may
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. William Cobbett
war skills doing-nothing
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. William Cowper
war men noisy
A noisy man is always in the right.
war hero writing
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
war successful solitude
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
warrior goal people
What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people. Wayne Dyer
war giving east
We come from an abundant, endlessly providing, always forthcoming, always giving source. If we would just stay like that, if we would be forthcoming and giving and sharing and allowing, excluding no one, then it wouldn't be possible to have wars in the Middle East, or poverty in Africa, or any of these kinds of things.
warrior goal want
Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.
war diversity invasion
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces. Vasily Grossman
war men white
At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
war government iraq
Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous. Van Jones
war world levels
Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
war cancer nuclear-missiles
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. Uri Geller
warrior celebrate missions
Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate. Urban Meyer
war civilization opposites
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Ursula K. Le Guin
war thoughtful people
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.
war house cooking
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
war spring winter
Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.
war hero harm
Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
war prisoner
In war everybody is a prisoner.
war adventure moon
...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.
war opposites civilization
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
war civilization two
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.