War Quotes
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I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
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My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.
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I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.
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We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.
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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
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I think it was Osama bin Laden’s idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
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England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. (p.66)
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This is an exhortation for a country that is on the verge of civil war...
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As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.
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I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
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We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.
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People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.
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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.
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War does not ask which of its victims deserves to die and which does not. It is indiscriminate. Innocent as well as guilty fall before it.
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.
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Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?
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I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
