War Quotes

• Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • War
  • Victims

• If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.

  

  Boake Carter
  • Truth
  • Footage
  • Casualty

• No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Enemy
  • Socialism

• I talked to George Lucas once, not about Star Wars. Everyone wants to talk to him about Star Wars, and I didn't want to be one of those people. In person - at least on this occasion - he wasn't effervescent and giddy, as the Star Wars movies are. He's more focused.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • War
  • Giddy

• We left him there. Louie. We left him.” I watched my father lean into his own arms and sob. There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal. My heart was breaking. All this time, I’d wanted my father to tell me something about the war and now I couldn’t stand to see the rawness of his pain, how new it was after so many years, how that pain was alive and thriving just beneath the surface.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Pain
  • Animal
  • My Heart

• Men practice war; beasts do not.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • War
  • Practice
  • Beast

• For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • May
  • War
  • Option

• Obi-Wan understands that the best thing he can do is contribute something positive to the world around him and then to leave. And if he does that, he will in some ways live forever because the good influence of what he did will be felt. It may sound corny but that's kind of the way I feel about contributing to Star Wars characters. It isn't about me. It's about the story. It's about the mythology of Star Wars and the moral implications of that mythology.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • World
  • Character
  • Kind

• If we are perceived by the rest of the world as employing a double standard in the way that we pursue the war on terror, if we are seen as imposing on other countries' nationals, burdens that we wouldn't be able to tolerate ourselves, then we sacrifice the legitimacy of the enterprise. And I don't think the world considers it illegitimate for the United States to seek to protect itself from another attack like the one we suffered on 9/11, but I think the world does think it is illegitimate to do so by sacrificing their citizens' rights and not our citizens' rights.

  

  David D. Cole
  • World
  • Sacrifice
  • Protect

• There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • War
  • Value
  • Bullets

• Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Time
  • Heart
  • War

• War is failure of diplomacy.

  

  John Dingell
  • War
  • Failure

• It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

  

  John Hewson
  • Work
  • War
  • Structure

• The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

  

  Albert Camus
  • War
  • Government
  • Revolutionary

• I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Time
  • World
  • Moments

• War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • Problems
  • Human Rights
  • Ireland

• Those who prepare for war get it.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • War
  • Prepare

• We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' - which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.

  

  Albert Wohlstetter
  • War
  • Possibilities
  • Unpleasant

• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Winning
  • Educated

• The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War
  • Saddam
  • Inspection team

• The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Raises
  • Tactics
  • Intimidating

• Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Sabotage

• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Powerful
  • Struggle
  • Military

• You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

  

  Homer
  • War
  • Afraid
  • Risk Of Death

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