War Quotes

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

Mark Steyn
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

Chung Mong-joon
- War
- Cold

Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!

E. V. Lucas
- War
- Mean
- Haig
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Marie Lu
- Long
- Book
- Ballet
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Life
- Death
- Literature
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

Angus Deaton
- World
- Writing
- School
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Carl von Clausewitz
- War
- More
- Intelligence
On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

Lewis B. Hershey
- People
- Situation
- Kill