War Quotes
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With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.
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As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.
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If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
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The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!
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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
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The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
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I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'
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He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
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In the new series of 'Foyle's War,' London starts to get bombed, and the country falls under heavy attack. It affects people's sense of well-being, their sense of the future and their concerns for their family and friends.
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For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?
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I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.
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People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.
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Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.
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Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.
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As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
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There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.
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One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.
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We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
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Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
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My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.
