War Quotes
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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
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The hardiest sons of the war, the men who lead the storm-troop, and manipulate the tank, the aeroplane, and the submarine, are preeminent in technical accomplishment; and it is these picked examples of dare-devil courage that represent the modern state i battle. These men of first-rate qualities with real blood in their veins, courageous, intelligent, accustomed to serve the machine, and yet its superior at the same time, are the men, too, who show up best in the trench and among the shell-holes.
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We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.
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War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'
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Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exemption...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.
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When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and to get hippies...that to me is just as shitty as saying all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Or all Muslims. That's what I'm paying attention to. And everybody is hedging their bets when it comes to marijuana. The government is sitting on this lie saying it's a gateway drug.
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The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
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Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.
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It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.
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There's no war that will end all wars.
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Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
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I am against all war.
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During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
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No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.
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Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
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If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.
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We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.
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On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.
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I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.
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In fact, my mom would have gone to the Persian Gulf War had she not been pregnant with me.
