War Quotes

• There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

  

  Douglass North
  • World
  • Peace
  • June

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • War
  • Mean
  • Eras

• Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Tired
  • Conflict

• I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of television shows. People don't want to hear from me.

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • Support
  • Movies

• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Real
  • Political
  • Same

• The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • People
  • American
  • Military

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• Class-war evil supernatural black fungus. I love it.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • War
  • I Love It
  • Fungus

• We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • Country
  • War
  • Past

• What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • War
  • Planning
  • Fair

• What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • America
  • Independence

• If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • War
  • Place
  • Give

• The sky is always falling or the sky is always bright. In some ways, this is really morning in America and we don't see it. People are living longer, the economy is doing pretty well. On the other hand, there are some ways of thinking in the current situation that make it look not so good, including our Star Wars prequels - like legislature, meaning they're talking a lot, not doing a lot.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • War
  • Fall
  • Morning

• There is no role in a war unless the parties are exhausted. These parties are not exhausted. They are still on a triumphal path. They are not on a coalition path. It's an either/or death struggle. They don't understand that the death is ongoing right now and could take several cycles for the corpse to be autopsied. I hope you use this - this should put your paper on the map. Everybody should read it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Struggle

• One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971 at an anti-war rally.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Life
  • War
  • Picture

• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • War
  • Day
  • Progress

• The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Country
  • War
  • Momentum

• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Country
  • War

• Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • War

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