Quotes about war
war democracy answers
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy. Vandana Shiva
war agriculture today
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
war gymnastics elephants
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. Madeleine Albright
war iraq iran
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
war home life-is-hard
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
war iraq administration
The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.
war thinking economic-sanctions
I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.
war book hands
Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace. William Shakespeare
war dark wife
War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.
war honor companionship
If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?
war broken bread
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
warrior joy pleasure
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
war soldier making-love
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
war sometimes businessman
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
war ten
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. Beilby Porteus
war way opponents
A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent Becca Fitzpatrick
war blessed fighting
Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me Barry Pepper
war believe gun
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'. Barry McGuire
war moving fall
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism. B. H. Liddell Hart
war loss issues
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
war military should-have
To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.
war military victory
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
war military evil
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
war support kind
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
war ambition thinking
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
war air soldier
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
war power history
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
war lying mean
If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.
war want ifs
If you want peace, understand war.
war chiefs humans
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
war practice people
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior. B. F. Skinner
war believe men
In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.
war sacrifice fighting
Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag. Bill Shuster