Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Hermann Fried

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Alfred Hermann Fried

War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

Alfred Eisenstaedt

I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that.

Alfred de Vigny

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Angela Merkel

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

Andrew Johnson

I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.

Andrew Johnson

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

Andrew Greeley

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

Andrew Greeley

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Andrew Jackson

...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms...

Andrew Jackson

Their object is disunion.

Andrew Jackson

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

Andrew Jackson

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

Amy Schumer

I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

Ami Ayalon

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

Aminatta Forna

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

Amity Shlaes

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Amitabh Bachchan

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

Amiri Baraka

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Amish Tripathi

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

Anson Mount

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Andy Rooney

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

Andy Rooney

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

Andy Rooney

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Andy Warhol

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Andrew Roberts

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.

Andre Dubus

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Ang Lee

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

Anacreon

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.