Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Meloy

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

Colin Quinn

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

Colin Powell

It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war with Iran; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that fired chemical weapons at Iran; it was Iraq. And it was not the United States that murdered innocent Iraqi citizens with chemical weapons; it was Iraq.

Colin Powell

War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.

Colin Powell

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

Colin Powell

Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.

Colin Powell

That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.

Colin Powell

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

Eamon de Valera

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Anne Lamott

In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.

Ann Wright

As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues. We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.

Ann Widdecombe

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Ann Widdecombe

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

Albert Schweitzer

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

Albert Schweitzer

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Camus

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Albert Finney

I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.

Albert J. Nock

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

Albert Ellis

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Albert Camus

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Albert Camus

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

Albert Camus

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

Albert Camus

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Albert Camus

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

Albert Camus

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Albert Camus

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Albert Camus

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

Alexander Dubcek

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Amelia Earhart

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Annie Lennox

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.