Wars Quotes

• 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
  • Never
  • More
  • Around

• The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Wars
  • Hurts

• Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Slaves
  • Wars
  • Implement

• We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Wonder
  • No Idea
  • Escalated

• Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Blood
  • Wars
  • Oligarchs

• We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Wars
  • Homosexuality

• 'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • America
  • Cinema
  • Wars

• I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Camera
  • Wars
  • Helicopters

• 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
  • Generations
  • Cost
  • Wars

• We all fight our own private wars.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Fight
  • Wars

• America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • America
  • Wars

• Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?

  

  George Henry Boker
  • Country
  • Death
  • Wars

• "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
  • Human
  • Natural
  • Destroyed

• Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

  

  Jonathan Powell
  • Military
  • Involved
  • Wars

• Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Existence
  • Necessity
  • Sovereign

• But in the end, all wars are more or less the same. If you dig down through the layers of caramel corn and peanuts and choking, burning death, you’ll find the prize at the bottom and the prize is a question and the question is this: Which of us are people and which of us are meat?

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • People
  • Question
  • Same

• It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Fear
  • Dreams
  • Unknown

• Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

  

  Carol Grace
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Lies

• History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Record
  • Wars

• It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much about the history of the country. I didn't know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It's this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way of thinking. If we were laughing, Hungarian kids would be like "You're so American."

  

  Evan Jones
  • History
  • Interesting
  • Communist

• Obviously, having served in wars myself, I'm eager to do everything possible to avoid them, but our military capability vis-a-vis a country like Iran is a major source of leverage in any negotiation that we should never, ever give up.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Military
  • Give Up
  • Negotiation

• Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Violence
  • Need
  • Blood

• When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

  

  Wilfred Funk
  • Words
  • Settle
  • Disputes

• Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Blood
  • Reasons
  • Wars

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