War Quotes

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

Harald zur Hausen
- World
- Family
- City
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

Walter Dean Myers
- War
- Generation
- Own

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

Harry S Truman
- Decision
- Tokyo
- Atom Bomb
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

George R. R. Martin
- Pretty
- Night
- Fear
Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
- World
- Together
- Hope
War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.

G. Stanley Hall
- Good
- War
- Psychology
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

C. L. R. James
- War
- Germany
- Defeated
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

Ed Asner