Quotes about war
war school years
If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools. Liberace
war winning blood
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so. Libba Bray
war stupid grandma
God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons. Libba Bray
war lying fall
He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another. Libba Bray
warning yards jewelry
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. Libba Bray
warning insufferable walks
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow. Libba Bray
war indian
The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas. Leslie Marmon Silko
war men ideas
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. Lester B. Pearson
war discovery together
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. Lester B. Pearson
war men uniforms
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform. Lester B. Pearson
war technology achievement
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. Lester B. Pearson
war mind development
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. Friedrich Durrenmatt
war inhuman
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended Friedrich Durrenmatt
war silly flames
A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes. Friedrich Durrenmatt
war blood history
Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones. Friedrich Durrenmatt
war wrath ideas
The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged. Friedrich Engels
war communication class
All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward. Friedrich Engels
war evil may
As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself. Friedrich August von Hayek
war pie government
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible. Friedrich August von Hayek
war risk achieve
If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve. Friedrich August von Hayek
war liberty emergencies
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. Friedrich August von Hayek
war strongest
God is always with the strongest battalions. Frederick the Great
war ignorance fighting
We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war winning years
In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war hands world
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war boys presidential
Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war air-force december
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war hate struggle
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war cutting thinking
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war pride world
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war unique long-ago
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war thinking should-have
I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt. Franklin D. Roosevelt
war thinking people
How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? Franklin D. Roosevelt