Famous Quotes
- When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
- Howard Zinn on War
- When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
- When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
- Prince Andrew on War
- When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on War
- When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill on War
- When there's a war, people get married.
- Doris Lessing on War
- When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
- Steven Spielberg on War
- When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
- Herbert Hoover on War
- When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
- Ann Coulter on War
- When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill on War
- When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
- King Abdullah II on War
- When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
- When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
- R. Lee Ermey on War
- Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
- Barack Obama on War
- Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
- Al McGuire on War
- Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
- With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
- John Cusack on War
- With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
- With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
- With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
- George W. Bush on War
- With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
- World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
- Herman Kahn on War
- World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
- Jon Meacham on War
- World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
- Barry Commoner on War
- World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
- Harry Browne on War
- World War II was the last government program that really worked.
- George Will on War
- World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
- Stephen Ambrose on War
- Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
- Thomas Hardy on War
- Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.
- H. Rap Brown on War
- Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
- John Andrew Holmes on War
- Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on War
- You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
- Jessica Savitch on War
- You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin on War
- You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
- Michael Haneke on War
- You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
- Henry A. Kissinger on War
- You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers on War
- You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
- John Mayer on War
- You cannot be politically correct in a war.
- Rupert Everett on War
- You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
- George H. W. Bush on War
- You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein on War
- You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
- James Hillman on War
- You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
- Geraldine Ferraro on War
- You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
- James Cagney on War
- You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
- Sharron Angle on War
- You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
- Peter Singer on War
- You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on War
- You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on War
- You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
- Dougray Scott on War
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