War Quotes
-
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.
-
If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
-
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
-
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
-
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
-
The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.
-
I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.
-
War is an abstraction.
-
The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
-
You could stand near him, listen to him speak, and feel as if you were in the presence of some wiser man, a true mullah. His uncles were the same. Rich, powerful men whose influence allowed them to profit from the war, not fight in it.
-
When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
-
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
-
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
-
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
-
The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.
-
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
-
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.
-
What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
-
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
-
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
-
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
-
I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.
-
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
-
The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
