Quotes about war
war years environmental
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. Barry Commoner
war party years
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. [...] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts. Barney Frank
war iraq stupidity
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
war son should-have
I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
war patriot
In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. August Bebel
war men men-and-women
Love between a man and woman is war. August Strindberg
war college strange
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace? Audrey Hepburn
warrior casualties
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior. Audre Lorde
warrior black faces
Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours?
war moscow eras
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. Aslan Maskhadov
war peaceful president
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
war book writing
I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.
war four solve
Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.
war hands glasses
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
war believe lasts
I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.
war bihar cold
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
war believe nuclear
We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.
war victory pressure
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.
war unique hot
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances. Atifete Jahjaga
war civilization class
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two. Arnold J. Toynbee
war years people
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast. Arnold Bennett
war giving
War can't give life, it can only take it away.
war enemy politics
War is the enemy of all mankind.
war may nuclear
[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable. Edwin Meese
war two numbers
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. Edwin Way Teale
war civil-war age
Now he belongs to the ages. Edwin M. Stanton
war blood names
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
war justice president
As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants. Edward Kennedy
war ideas goal
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
war gun age
When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong. Edna Ferber
war thinking sides
We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace. Edna St. Vincent Millay
war history mask
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. Edgar Quinet
war would-be littles
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. Benjamin Franklin