War Quotes

• Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

  

  William Odom
  • Way
  • Minutes
  • Consideration

• Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • War
  • Perception

• Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • War
  • Heaven
  • Period

• The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Long
  • Past
  • Culture

• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• Just why are we so poor? Why can I never sleep at night? Because bombs keep dropping! Why does my mother have to torture herself like that? Why didn't anyone give my dad a break? Why is there a war? Why? Why? Why?

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Night

• Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Giving
  • Failure
  • Chaos

• When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • World
  • Prices
  • Services

• The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

  

  Ted Turner
  • Want
  • Fighting
  • Start

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

  

  Jim Walsh
  • Long
  • War

• The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

  

  Douglas Hurd
  • World
  • Different
  • War

• The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

  

  Charles Evans Hughes
  • Power
  • War

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Time
  • Black
  • Friend

• I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • War
  • Guilty
  • Celebration

• Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.

  

  Emil Ludwig
  • Wish
  • Moments
  • Wishes

• I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Afghanistan
  • Yes

• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Slavery
  • Causes

• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Women
  • Money
  • Words

• I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

  

  Dave Reichert
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Family

• This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• There is no linguistic war in Montreal.

  

  Pierre Moreau
  • War

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