War Quotes
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
Nas
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Abraham Lincoln
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
Tacitus
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
Vikram Seth
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner
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On August 2, 1914, I took Braque and Derain to the Gare d'Avignon drafted as a soldier for World war 1. I never saw them again not literally a fact, but the close relation between Picasso and Braque ended.
Pablo Picasso
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
Yoko Ono
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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
Harald zur Hausen
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We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.
Chiang Kai-shek
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
Hamza Yusuf
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We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.
Jay Rockefeller
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Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.
James Carville
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.
Albert Einstein
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
Wagner Moura
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
Eamon de Valera
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie