War Quotes
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
Charles Dickens
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We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we've created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.
Marianne Williamson
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I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.
Angelina Jolie
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Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
Plutarch
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Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
Bob Ainsworth
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It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett
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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.
Dora Russell
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
Ludwig Quidde
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The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
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War is in the eyes.
David Douglas Duncan
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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.
Dennis Kucinich
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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Bernard Law Montgomery
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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
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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
Philip Caputo
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
William Shakespeare
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
Harold Pinter
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We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
Bob Ainsworth
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If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
Lamar Alexander
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
Jacob Weisberg
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I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I love him.
Luca Guadagnino
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
J. William Fulbright
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War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott