Quotes about war
war world months
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election. Frank Carlucci
war self-esteem events
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims. Frank Chodorov
war fighting pertinent-questions
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? Frank Chodorov
war political authority
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. Frank Chodorov
war men lines
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it. Frank A. Clark
war world sound
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
war survivor victim
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
war past years
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever. Gaylord Nelson
war people long
For a long time, way back in the '30s and '40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change]. Geena Davis
war fall dark
With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off. Gary Fisher
war people body
Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person. Gary Coleman
war
And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again. Samantha Smith
war knives soup
Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife. Edward Thomas
war justice enemy
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace. Edward de Bono
war enough
Patriotism alone is not enough. Edith Cavell
war mistake tragedy
At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. Holly Black
war wind stories
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War. Herman Wouk
war toys strange
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand. Herman Wouk
war ends
... a war always ends. Herman Wouk
war people watches
War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them. Herman Wouk
war wind looking-good
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. Herman Wouk
war eye disrespect
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. Hermann Hesse
war mind annihilation
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. Hermann Hesse
war fall germany
In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there. Hermann Hesse
war past silence
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past. . .while we silence the rebels of the present. Henry Steele Commager
war government judging
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way. Henry Steele Commager
war tragedy cost
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war… Henry Steele Commager
war battle done
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
war writing virginia
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
war lying hero
A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die. Joseph Addison
war stupid believe
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. Joseph Addison
war lying believe
Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has curtailed the ability of local folks here to hire immigrants, .. I really believe it starts from the top, and the policy continues to be one of ignoring people at the bottom, cutting taxes for those on the top and spending a lot of money for a war built on lies. Jose Serrano
war home poverty
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. Joseph A. Schumpeter