War Quotes
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There are lots of signs that average Israelis want peace. But after such a long war - this conflict has been going on now for 120 years - you have a fifth generation being born into it on both sides. Such a conflict creates hatred, fears, stereotypes, and demonizations of the other. It would be an illusion to believe you can put an end to this overnight.
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At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
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And it's the same when there's a war on: it's the men who go to fightWomen and children are civilians, when they're killed it's not rightMen kill men in uniform, its the way war goesWhen they run they're cowards, when they stay they are heroes.
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The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
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I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
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If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
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Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
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And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the left can seize upon and later flog us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.
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Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
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Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.
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Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.
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We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.
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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
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One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.
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Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
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I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.
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In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.
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I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
