Quotes about war
war british-soldiers facts
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink. Duke of Wellington
war
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
war sides life-is
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
war men battle
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!
war france total-war
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
war soldier retreat
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
war book reading
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist. Douglass North
war rights doors
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America. Douglas Wilder
war humanity nuclear
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity. Dr. John
war confused wish
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas. Dougray Scott
war humility eye
To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom ... Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do. Dorothy Day
war nursing opposites
The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.
war hero men
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
war our-world racism
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
war party thinking
Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame. Dorothy L. Sayers
war suits ifs
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
war first-love kissing
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.
war two sloth
The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
war victory cold
The Cold War was a war, and we won it. Donald Rumsfeld
war believe army
As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe -- it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.
war mass-destruction iraq
We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
war iraq long
It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
war army iraq
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
war quagmire iraq-war
No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
war oil iraq-war
I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.
war iraq lasts
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.
war struggle rights
An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.
war loss engaged
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.
warrior arms failing
Arm chair warriors often fail. Don Henley
warrior fairy-tale failing
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
war learning school
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. Dwight D. Eisenhower
war wool cotton
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.
war believe civilization
I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.