Famous Quotes
- 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
- Michelle Malkin on War
- A bad peace is even worse than war.
- A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
- Umberto Eco on War
- A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
- E. W. Howe on War
- A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
- Aldous Huxley on War
- A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
- Charles Schumer on War
- A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
- Christopher Hitchens on War
- A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
- Michael Moore on War
- A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on War
- A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
- Rita Rudner on War
- A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
- Henry Van Dyke on War
- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill on War
- A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on War
- A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
- Conrad Black on War
- A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
- Carly Simon on War
- A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
- Simone Weil on War
- A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
- Samuel Butler on War
- A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on War
- A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on War
- A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on War
- A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
- H. G. Wells on War
- A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
- Herbert V. Prochnow on War
- A war between Europeans is a civil war.
- Victor Hugo on War
- A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
- Albert Pike on War
- A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
- Camille Paglia on War
- Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
- Jerry Saltz on War
- Accursed be he that first invented war.
- Christopher Marlowe on War
- Accurst be he that first invented war.
- Christopher Marlowe on War
- After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
- Leon Panetta on War
- After every war someone has to tidy up.
- Wislawa Szymborska on War
- After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
- Bob Woodward on War
- After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
- Barney Ross on War
- Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
- Graham Greene on War
- Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
- All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
- Jim Ramstad on War
- All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
- Jerry Saltz on War
- All oppression creates a state of war.
- Simone De Beauvoir on War
- All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
- John T. Flynn on War
- All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
- Duke Of Wellington on War
- All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
- Gary Bauer on War
- All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
- Noah Webster on War
- All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
- Kurt Vonnegut on War
- All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on War
- All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.
- Victor Cousin on War
- All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
- George Wald on War
- All war is based on deception.
- All war is deception.
- All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
- All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
- Francois Fenelon on War
- Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln on War
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