War Quotes

• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  

  Ernst Zundel
  • World
  • Country
  • Kitchen

• Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • America
  • War
  • Lost

• Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.

  

  Larry Niven
  • War
  • Fun

• In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • American
  • Political

• I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • People
  • War

• Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Leader
  • Patriotic
  • Bangs

• Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Situation

• Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Lies

• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Winning
  • Military
  • Happens

• D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Women
  • War

• The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Ride
  • Over
  • Chin

• There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

  

  Fredrik Bajer
  • War

• It is with artillery that war is made.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Made
  • Artillery

• In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Character
  • Balance
  • Relation

• In time of war the laws are silent.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Time
  • War

• A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

  

  Jo Ann Emerson
  • World
  • War

• I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

  

  George Grosz
  • War
  • Hated
  • Served

• I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Men
  • Help
  • Powerful

• My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

  

  James Fenton
  • Death
  • Feeling
  • Simple

• To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possesed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injuction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relenquishment thereof.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Fall

• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Men
  • House

• Every war is a war against children.

  

  Eglantyne Jebb
  • Children
  • War

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