War Quotes
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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A severe war lurks under the show of peace.
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And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.
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The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.
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I saw 'The War Wagon' with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then this little strip with some Spanish words, and I've never forgotten that weird image. It was so magical and funky.
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It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. ... The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, 'We're not perfect, but they're nuts.'
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'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
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The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear war the first blow may be the decisive one and render null and void years of work and billions spent on creation of an anti-missile system.
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I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.
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Beside the staff of life, taken and fashioned from the heavy earth, beside our marriage, work, and war the free man, too, will live and grow towards the sun. Not the ripe fruit alone - blossom is lovely, too. Does blossom only serve the fruit, or does fruit only serve the blossom - who knows? But both are given to us.
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Das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes ist das Schicksal Makbeths, der aus der Natur selbst trat, sich an fremde Wesen hing, und so in ihrem Dienste alles Heilige der menschlichen Natur zertreten und ermorden, von seinen Göttern (denn es waren Objekte, er war Knecht) endlich verlassen, und an seinem Glauben selbst zerschmettert werden mußte.
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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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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
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Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.
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It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
