Quotes about war
war records world
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov
war approach prudence
Prudence approaches, conscience accuses. Immanuel Kant
war evil-people bad-things
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.
war men states
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
war men order
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'
war thinking violence
I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'. Elton John
war leader together
The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?
war world involved
I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12. Elle Fanning
war enemy desire
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
war men wish
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
war thinking decision
Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most challenging prime ministership since the Suez Crisis, possibly since the Second World War. Jeremy Hunt
war taken secret
I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film. Jeremy Irvine
war firsts world
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
war writing poverty
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. Jennifer Gilmore
warning littles alertness
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive. Jeff Cooper
war fighting loss
The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
war fighting might
If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand war you don't understand history. And if you don't understand history you might as well live with your head in a sack.
war ideas chinese
There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese. Jean-Paul Sartre
war valuable reports
It is always more valuable to report the truth.
war trusted
Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war. Georges Clemenceau
war serious
War is too serious to be entrusted to generals
war plus easier
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
war winner disaster
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
war military army
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
war party rights
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!
war fighting sea
The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.
war home foreign-policy
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
war people famous-last-words
Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing. Georges Danton
warrior self interest
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Georges Bataille
war rust total-war
I would rather wear out than rust out. George Whitefield
war rupture cymbals
Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions. George Will
war fate choices
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.
war 4th-of-july blessing
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.