Wladyslaw Szpilman Quotes

“Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”

Wladyslaw Szpilman

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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

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Israel

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Bad
  • Learn

• 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • May
  • War

• The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Law
  • Need

• We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • War
  • Energy
  • Terrorism

• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Work
  • Believe
  • War

• The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • War
  • Fight

• The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Support
  • Choice

• You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Country
  • War
  • Fight

• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • War
  • Support

• We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • War

• The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

  

  Friedrich St. Florian
  • Time
  • War
  • Attitude

• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • War
  • Death
  • Law

• It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Business
  • Job
  • Help

• I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Family
  • Home
  • Football

• “Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”

  

  Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • War
  • Shown
  • Godlessness