War Quotes
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Here is Russia, blatantly threatening a neighboring state with war if it seeks to pursue an independent foreign policy, yet we are so habituated to Russian flouting of international law that we barely notice any more.
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If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
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Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.
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We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
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The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.
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How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?
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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
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In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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War is horrible because it strangles youth.
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Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
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A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.
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We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.
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The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
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I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.
