Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pilger

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

John Podhoretz

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.

John Podhoretz

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Martin McGuinness

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.

Martin Luther

A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

Martin Luther

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Martin Luther

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Martin Luther

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

Martin Luther

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

Martin Luther

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Martin Luther

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Mark Steyn

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

Mark Steyn

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

Mark Steyn

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

Mark Steyn

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

Nick Lampson

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

Nick Cave

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Nancy Astor

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

Nalo Hopkinson

My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.

Nana Mouskouri

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

Sherman Alexie

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

Seth Grahame-Smith

My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

Seth Grahame-Smith

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

Sebastian Junger

War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.

Sebastian Junger

Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

Sebastian Junger

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

Sebastian Junger

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

Sebastian Junger

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

Sebastian Junger

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

Sebastian Junger

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Sebastian Junger

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.