War Quotes

• Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • War
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • America
  • Superhero

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • War

• It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

  

  Charles Albert Gobat
  • War
  • Peace
  • Passion

• We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

  

  Daniel Yergin
  • World
  • War

• The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Long
  • Power
  • War

• I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Poetry

• The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • China
  • Communist

• If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Children
  • Strong
  • Purpose

• When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Trying
  • Economy
  • Parks

• I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • War

• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Career
  • Government
  • Poverty

• I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Dying
  • Philosophical
  • Pet

• War is not civilized.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • War
  • Civilized

• See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Simple
  • Water
  • Christian

• We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between the war in Iraq and the current war in Afghanistan. The fact that I'm sitting here making sure that we continue to put out the best young Marines is just a matter of it being 2011.

  

  Loretta Reynolds
  • Women
  • War

• My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

  

  Louis XIV
  • War
  • Peace

• Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • World
  • Science
  • Team

• Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Art
  • Literature

• My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Time
  • Power
  • War

• I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

  

  David Cross
  • Remember
  • War

• As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • History
  • Democracy
  • Cold

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