Quotes about war
war people tables
Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people. David Eddings
war eye men
That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war. David Benioff
war israel needs
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war. David Ben-Gurion
warning waste next
Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot..... David Baldacci
war successful long
Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen. Dax Shepard
war history research
We learned the value of research in World War II. Amar Bose
war people causes
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally. Anthony Marra
war hero lessons
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. Anthony Minghella
war character today
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. Anna Quindlen
war struggle land
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. Angelina Grimke
war roots movement
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change. Cindy Sheehan
war kids dies
So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about
war believe support
I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever
war usa singing
% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
war class profound
War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.
war president world
I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
war lying son
George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq. Helping to bring about your political downfall will be the most noble accomplishment of my life, and it will bring justice for my son and the hundreds of other brave Americans and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis your lies have killed.
war lying home
This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.
war excuse has-beens
There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.
war iraq leader
We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.
war fighting names
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
war machines hook
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.
war thinking race
When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because we didn't cast him as a representative of the white race. We didn't give into his narrative. We did the exact opposite. And I think that we have to be careful not to give into the apocalyptic narrative of ISIS that wants to start a war between Muslims and everybody else. Chuck Todd
war winning long
At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.
war anarchy symptoms
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy. Alfred Hermann Fried
war order justice
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
war names nurse
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 Eisenstaedt
war men soldier
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. Alfred de Vigny
war europe two
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. Angela Merkel
war believe southern
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
war fate care
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!
war taken agency
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
war years europe
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.