War Quotes
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There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice.
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Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
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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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One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. Seeing this war that could end with both lives being lost, or both lives being made, gave me an enlightenment of life itself. It sparked my whole mind to a whole other level of living. And if I never would have seen it, I never would have understood life. I never would have appreciated life.
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Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads.
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My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.
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In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
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I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
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I’ll not assert that it was a diversion which prevented a war, but nevertheless, it was a diversion.
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If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
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War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
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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.
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Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.
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We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.
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Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.
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What we are seeing is not the war in Iraq. What we're seeing is slices of the war in Iraq.111213
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Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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I think people would be up in arms. I think we would most likely have a similar situation to what happened in the 60s. I don't know if it would be as violent, I think it would be difficult to say that. But I think that, from what I can understand, our nation as a whole is largely against the war as it stands.
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You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.
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I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
