Famous Quotes
- The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.
- Nancy Pelosi on War
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell on War
- The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on War
- The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
- Germaine Greer on War
- The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
- Ezra Pound on War
- The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
- Marjane Satrapi on War
- The real war will never get in the books.
- Walt Whitman on War
- The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
- Sloane Crosley on War
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein on War
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson on War
- The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.
- Chris Christie on War
- The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
- Bianca Jagger on War
- The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
- Samuel Butler on War
- The sinews of war are infinite money.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on War
- The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on War
- The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- Douglas MacArthur on War
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
- John Randolph on War
- The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
- J. G. Ballard on War
- The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
- George W. Bush on War
- The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
- Clive Owen on War
- The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
- Gus Van Sant on War
- The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
- Tony Blair on War
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- E. B. White on War
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- Edward Abbey on War
- The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
- George McGovern on War
- 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 on War
- The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
- Conan O'Brien on War
- The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
- Condoleezza Rice on War
- The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
- John Podhoretz on War
- The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
- Barack Obama on War
- The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
- Will Rogers on War
- The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer on War
- The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
- Henry A. Kissinger on War
- The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
- William Hague on War
- The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
- Ted Nugent on War
- The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
- David Herbert Lawrence on War
- The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
- L. Neil Smith on War
- The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
- Larry Elder on War
- The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
- Imran Khan on War
- The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
- Hamid Karzai on War
- The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
- The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
- Robert E. Lee on War
- The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar N. Bradley on War
- The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
- James Buchan on War
- The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
- The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
- Rupert Everett on War
- The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
- John F. Kennedy on War
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