- Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers on War
- Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
- Marshall McLuhan on War
- Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
- C. S. Lewis on War
- Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
- That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
- Gertrude Stein on War
- That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
- Paul Wolfowitz on War
- That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
- Noel Coward on War
- That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
- Shimon Peres on War
- That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
- Michael Ondaatje on War
- The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
- John Foster Dulles on War
- The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
- Ulysses S. Grant on War
- The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer on War
- The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
- H. L. Mencken on War
- The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
- Peggy Noonan on War
- The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
- Fareed Zakaria on War
- The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on War
- The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
- Dan Savage on War
- The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
- R. Lee Ermey on War
- The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
- Bianca Jagger on War
- The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
- George Bernard Shaw on War
- The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
- Conan O'Brien on War
- The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
- Richard M. Nixon on War
- The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
- John Le Carre on War
- The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
- George Wald on War
- The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
- Thomas Hobbes on War
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Virginia Woolf on War
- The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- George Washington on War
- The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
- George W. Bush on War
- The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
- John Maynard Keynes on War
- The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
- The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
- George W. Bush on War
- The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
- Thomas Friedman on War
- The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman on War
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
- George Orwell on War
- The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
- George McGovern on War
- The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
- James Madison on War
- The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
- Jon Meacham on War
- The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
- Rahm Emanuel on War
- The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
- Sophia Loren on War
- The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
- Hamid Karzai on War
- The first casualty when war comes is truth.
- Hiram Johnson on War
- The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
- Ernest Hemingway on War
- The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
- Harry Browne on War
- The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
- The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
- P. J. O'Rourke on War
- The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
- Ramsey Clark on War
- The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
- Lester B. Pearson on War
- The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
- Jim Ramstad on War
- The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
- John Podhoretz on War
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