War Quotes
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In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.
Kenzaburo Oe
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Wage war on death. Live for love.
Ted Dekker
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The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Naji Sabri
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Anson Mount
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The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
Mark Boal
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As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Albert Ellis
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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
Bruce Jackson
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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
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The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
David Grann
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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!
J. G. Ballard
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I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
Kevin J. Anderson
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No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
Patrick Ness
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The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.
Mary Ellen Mark
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Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Janis Karpinski
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War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
Phil Klay
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The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.
Bob Simon
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Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
David K. E. Bruce
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President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.
Craig Kilborn
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Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
Alistair Cooke
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Never for one single moment have I doubted the rightness of what I did at Munich, nor can I believe that it was possible for me to do more than I did to prepare the country for war after Munich, given the violent & persistent opposition I had to fight against all the time.
Neville Chamberlain
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People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
John Boyne