Wars Quotes
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We all fight our own private wars.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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
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If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
Harry S Truman
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History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
Mahatma Gandhi
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'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.
Rana Daggubati
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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
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams
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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
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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
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We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.
Benjamin Carson
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Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.
Saul Bellow
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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
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Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
Susan Sontag
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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
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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
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We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.
Widad Akrawi
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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
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Erica Jong
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
Ezra Pound
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When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.
Wilfred Funk
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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
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America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.
Jimmy Carter
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Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
Marcel Proust