War Quotes

• I am not saying that gas chambers did not exist. I did not see them myself. I haven't studied the questions specially. But I believe it is a minor point in the history of the Second World War.

  

  Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

  

  Jim Murphy
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

  

  Arthur Wimperis
  • World
  • Trying
  • Wonder

• 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.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War

• The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Police
  • Drug
  • Increase

• The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

  

  Don Rose
  • War
  • Control
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Deborah Ellis
  • Children
  • Home
  • Kids

• There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.

  

  Philip Caputo
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Attitude

• War is life war is the origin of all things.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Life
  • War
  • Origin

• Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

  

  Lorene Scafaria
  • Reality
  • Control
  • Worry

• There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Character

• Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Good
  • Family
  • May

• We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Home
  • Government

• Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Fighting
  • Drugs

• If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should.

  

  Jim Moran
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Support

• Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Job
  • Rock
  • Inspiration

• The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Political

• Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Peace
  • Die

• If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

  

  Alan Gorrie
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Lies

• By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Strong
  • Police
  • Army

• Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • High
  • Action
  • Air

• Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

  

  Frank B. Kellogg
  • War
  • Peace

• We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

  

  Clark M. Clifford
  • War
  • Dance

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