War Quotes
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If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.
Sebastian Junger
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Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
Michael Leunig
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert
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I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.
Eugene Puryear
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Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.
John Gregory Dunne
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We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans are okay talking about it like this; everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.
Eric Drooker
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In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.
Michael Morpurgo
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In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
Arthur Keith
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The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.
Phil Klay
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I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.
Emir Kusturica
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Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.
Joe Haldeman
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The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
Noah Emmerich
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Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.
Vladimir Putin
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Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
Josh Gad
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Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
Harry Graf Kessler
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Ez fer war, I call it murder-There you hev it plain an' flat;I don't want to go no furderThan my Testyment fer that.
James Russell Lowell
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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Arthur Henderson
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.
William Shakespeare
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We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
Eve Curie
