Famous Quotes
- The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
- John Foster Dulles on War
- There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
- Saul Bellow on War
- There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on War
- There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
- Leon Trotsky on War
- There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
- Barack Obama on War
- There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
- Christopher Hitchens on War
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- Noam Chomsky on War
- There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on War
- There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.
- Joel Silver on War
- There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
- There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
- Will Durant on War
- There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
- Alison Lurie on War
- There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
- Bianca Jagger on War
- There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
- George McGovern on War
- There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- George Orwell on War
- There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on War
- There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
- There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
- There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
- Miguel De Cervantes on War
- There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- Havelock Ellis on War
- There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
- George Wald on War
- There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
- Douglas William Jerrold on War
- There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart on War
- There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
- Martin Scorsese on War
- There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin on War
- There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
- Andrew Cuomo on War
- There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
- Harry Bridges on War
- There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas A. Edison on War
- There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
- Pat Robertson on War
- There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
- Jimmy Carter on War
- There's no question that jihad historically means war.
- Pat Robertson on War
- There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
- There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
- Julie Burchill on War
- These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on War
- They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
- Henry A. Wallace on War
- They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
- John Boehner on War
- They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway on War
- Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
- This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on War
- This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
- Jack Nicklaus on War
- This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
- William Burroughs on War
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
- Virginia Woolf on War
- This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on War
- This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
- Maxine Waters on War
- This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
- James Lovelock on War
- This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- This war is not about slavery.
- Robert E. Lee on War
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