Famous Quotes
- Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
- Charles Lamb on War
- Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
- Charles Wilson on War
- Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
- Thor Heyerdahl on War
- Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
- Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
- Victor Hugo on War
- Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
- Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
- Donald Berwick on War
- Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
- Noam Chomsky on War
- Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
- Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- Douglas MacArthur on War
- Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
- Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
- Robert Taft on War
- Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
- 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 on War
- Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
- Donald Rumsfeld on War
- Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on War
- Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
- Sarah Palin on War
- Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
- Lindsey Graham on War
- Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers on War
- Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
- Allan Massie on War
- Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on War
- Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
- Ron Fournier on War
- Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
- Samuel Goldwyn on War
- During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
- John Le Carre on War
- During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
- Fareed Zakaria on War
- During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
- Lionel Blue on War
- During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
- Thomas Hobbes on War
- During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
- Howard Thurman on War
- Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller on War
- Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
- Wendell Willkie on War
- Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
- Barbara Kingsolver on War
- Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
- Maria Montessori on War
- Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
- Immanuel Kant on War
- Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
- Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
- Howard Dean on War
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
- Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
- Loren Eiseley on War
- Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
- Robert Anton Wilson on War
- Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
- George Orwell on War
- Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
- Haruki Murakami on War
- Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
- Denzel Washington on War
- Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
- Michael Morpurgo on War
- Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on War
- Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
- Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
- Harry S. Truman on War
- Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
- Elizabeth Bowen on War
- Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
- Henry A. Wallace on War
- First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on War
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