Sophocles Quotes

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

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• 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
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • War
  • Key

• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Think
  • Eyes

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Moment
  • Possible

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • War
  • Rich

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Society
  • Humanity

• There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • America
  • 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 purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • War
  • Peace
  • Propaganda

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Work
  • Job
  • War

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Jobs
  • Firsts
  • Hollywood

• Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Wealth

• For the record,'You'll Always Be a Part Of Me' no matter what you do,For the record,can't nobody say I didn't give 'My All' to you,For the record,I told you 'Underneath The Stars' that you 'Belong' to me,For the record,It's obvious that we just 'Can't Let Go' of us 'Honey'.

  

  Mariah Carey

• Heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Heaven
  • Remains
  • Wise Person

• I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.

  

  Bill Nye
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

  

  Sophocles
  • War
  • Loves
  • Victims