War Quotes

• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age

• But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • War
  • Army
  • Wire

• I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

  

  Peter Forsberg
  • War
  • Team
  • Practice

• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Dog

• I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

  

  Craig Venter
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • War
  • Lost

• Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Democracy
  • Victims
  • Murderers

• Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Mexican

• I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions on us, without waging a war. How would we survive under those circumstances?

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • War
  • Independent

• In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • War
  • Healing

• I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

  

  Dennis Cardoza
  • War

• Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

  

  Kurt Masur
  • World
  • War
  • Opportunity

• I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • World
  • Control
  • Suffering

• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • History

• There's a definite rift in 'Riverdale.' There's a civil war between the Southside and the Northside. And Jughead being on the Southside and Betty's on the Northside, it becomes a bit of a 'Romeo and Juliet' situation.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • War

• Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • War

• There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Three
  • England

• The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Words
  • Honor
  • Grief

• We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Prophecy
  • Tuberculosis
  • British Empire

• Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Female
  • Profile
  • Soothing

• In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Book
  • American

• 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.

  

  Luke Harding
  • War

• Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

  

  Plutarch
  • War
  • Law

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