War Quotes
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I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.
Emily Yoffe -
Foreigners assume that because of the war, the two sides must dislike each other more than West and East Germans did. The opposite is the case. Some of my students say, 'The North would never attack us, we’re the same people,' as if the war never happened. And North Korea would now be just as committed to unification if it hadn’t.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
Ernest Lawrence -
Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military. Whereas my father had not fought. He was older and he was in a business that was considered essential to the wartime effort - the wire business - and, of course, I was so young I didn't understand any of this.
Paul Auster -
War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.
H. L. Mencken -
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
James Russell Lowell -
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,
W. S. Gilbert -
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
Scott Westerfeld -
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.
Eric Foner -
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
Stephen Gaghan -
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
Friedrich Durrenmatt -
In the future maybe. At the moment there's a war on against men and against the family, and we need to put an end to it.
Erin Pizzey -
Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.
Anjan Sundaram
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When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.
Gail Simone -
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
George Bernard Shaw -
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
Antony Beevor -
War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.
Bela Kiraly -
The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
Daniel Mendelsohn -
Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
Alan Sillitoe
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For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American.
Amanda Foreman -
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
Lech Walesa -
When Russia is at war, we are, of course, on Russia's side.
Margarita Simonyan -
World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts. (p. 152)
Marshall McLuhan