War Quotes
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I got wrecked by a dirty driver. There's no other way of putting it. He's cool with that. I have raced him really cool over the last year to be respectful to him and try to repair our relationship. It is not going to last, I can tell you that. Now we’ve got war.
Brad Keselowski
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I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.
Lois Frankel
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The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
Tom Harkin
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.
Stephen Ambrose
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
Ernest Hemingway
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
John Bolton
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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We think a trade war on aviation will be a lose-lose game, we continue to advocate for a settlement on this topic and we think it's still possible.
Guillaume Faury
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War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.
George Vecsey
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The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.
Vladimir Lenin
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Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.
Alexei Panshin
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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
Catherynne M. Valente
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In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.
Vladimir Lenin
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In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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War is failure of diplomacy.
John Dingell
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Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich
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'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in Iraq, and there is no doubt about where it is going and what kind of groundwork is being laid.
George Packer
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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
Vandana Shiva
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Throughout the country, we have proven that we have dignity. We were not afraid of water cannons and batons when they came. And some were not afraid of sniper bullets. Then across the country, we learnt what the Heavenly Hundred is. And then war came to our land, and the whole country faced it.
Volodymyr Zelensky
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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
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War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.
Jhumpa Lahiri