War Quotes

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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

First feelings are always the most natural.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

In times of war, you often hear leaders"”Christian, Jewish, and Muslim"”saying, "˜God is on our side.' But that isn't true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars...

All's fair in love and war.

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies "” socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor "” and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule"”and both commonly succeed, and are right.

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

War is the health of the state.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.

There never was a war that was not inward.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby... That's the Democrats. And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earthers and civil war re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans and who actually worry that Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal.

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.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind...

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

In violence, we forget who we are.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

War is not nice.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

A bad peace is worse than war.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars. (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world where the basic needs of all peoples are addressed. No more military attacks. No more war.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with one another. There will be no return to civil war. All the political powers as well as the media must work to reduce religious tensions and make everyone understand that they will not allow Lebanon to be destroyed again.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives. We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

War is the science of destruction.

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Morality is contraband in war.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is disappointed in love, he does not commit suicide. When loved ones die, he doesn't despair; when he loses a coveted contest, he doesn't falter; when war and destruction dissipate his future, he doesn't sink into a depression. He lives above his world and never loses sight of the goal of his salvation.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

War is the business of barbarians.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door—to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?—would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too—in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

War is just one more big government program.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

I really thought we'd win that

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it — that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

War is a perversion of sex.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Love is a kind of warfare.

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still — that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political postures"”dozens, literally dozens of factors.

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Peace is obtained by war.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

War would end if the dead could return.

You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

All war is based on deception.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ...After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.

We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Fighting men are the city's fortress

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise. However, it has needed one: which is about the severest criticism our civilization could have.

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

War is too important to be left to the generals

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

What millions died that Caesar might be great!

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The absence of war is not peace.

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons - incredible weapons." How do you know that? "Uh, well...we looked at the receipts."

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

War is a contagion.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

War is the trade of kings.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.