Wars Quotes
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Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.
Robin Williams -
Sebastian will never fight wars, but it's because of people like him that the rest of us don't have to fight as many of them. He makes everyone around him more than what they are.
Courtney Milan
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Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
William Shakespeare -
I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon -
There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.
Margaret Mitchell -
From this it may be seen at once what is the most important quality a nation must possess when its position in the world compels it to reckon with the waging of great wars. This quality is more than ever, in peace as well as in war, the proof of its fitness to survive. It is the capacity for the speedy development of a large programme.
Ernst Junger -
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton -
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Eugene V. Debs
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A lot of the people that work at Disney World are older people, and a lot have also been through wars, so they just want to work where people are smiling all the time. That's what I've been told, anyway.
Sasheer Zamata -
"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands"
Nông Đức Mạnh -
I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.
Winona Ryder -
We have two wars - a war with Russia, and a war against corruption within the country, which is a threat, above all, to the economy of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky -
All wars today tend to be netwars.
Antonio Negri -
If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.
George W. Norris
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Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.
Jonathan Powell -
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file.
Ernst Junger -
As a matter of fact, politics knows no end. It is Samsara in operation before our eyes, the Samsara of cause and effect, of past and present, of present and future which goes round and round and never ends, What cause and what effect, what past and what present, what present and what future hold for us now in politics? We have wars and wars. What cause? What effect?
Aung San -
When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.
Wilfred Funk -
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.
Walter Kasper
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The cost in human lives of every armed conflict is staggering, but the economic cost of wars can continue for generations.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. I pictured wars, I pictured the things my father had done to me, I pictured brutality, and when it was over, I am light.
Eve Ensler -
Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
Susan Sontag -
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam