War Quotes
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When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
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Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.
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To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.
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No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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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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I am against all war.
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There’s a war going on, that much is clear. And I’m no longer sure I’m on the right side.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
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The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
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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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We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.
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When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
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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 Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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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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I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.
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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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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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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
