Quotation Explorer - 'War'

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war - Orson Scott Card
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. - Carl Sandburg
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. - Thomas Jefferson
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.
And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh. - Tim O'Brien
We’ve been put into war, between body and soul. 28.06.11 - VicDo
Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war. - Debasish Mridha
You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know. - Millie
The law of war is harsh. If there's anything good at all in a war, it's that it brings the best and the worst out of people: some people try to use the lawlessness to hurt others, and some try to reduce the suffering to minimum. - Mohamedou Ould Slahi
An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war. - Hannah Fry
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. - Stanisław Jerzy Lec
A woman in love with another woman is revolution’s revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love. - Anonymous
At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him. - Lionel Suggs
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war. - Bernard Kouchner
How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models. - Bill Watterson
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. - Benjamin Rush
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. - Murray N. Rothbard
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. - William Faulkner
In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world. - Sergei Lukyanenko
Laws are silent in times of war. - Cicero
War, war never changes. - Ron Perlman
I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people. - Charles Manson
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. - Hannah Arendt
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. - Dan Quayle
In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 - Rudyard Kipling
Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou En Lai
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. - Richard Price
The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action. - Stephen R. Brown
Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image. - Santosh Kalwar
Es war so, als würde ich ausatmen, nachdem ich viel zu lange die Luft angehalten hatte. - Amy Ewing
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other. - Thomas Carlyle
War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn. - Adrian R. Lewis
To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun. - Debasish Mridha
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. - James Madison
I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon. - Darnell Lamont Walker
In each of us, two natures are at war the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose what we want most to be we are. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. - Theodore Roosevelt
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war? - Albert Einstein
In a war between evils, only evil wins. - Marty Rubin
Strange how this war was making them all Americans. - Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen
War would end if the dead could return. - Stanley Baldwin
No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider - PureDragonWolf
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Peace is better than war because conflict resolutions can be made without a wastage of life and resources. - Gugu Mona
So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.) - Robert Walser
Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above. - Sri Chinmoy
Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics. - Chandana Roy
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. - Georges Clemenceau
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. - Ulysses S. Grant
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.
Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.
Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared. - G.R. Gopinath
People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp. - Nevil Shute
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? - Howard Zinn
Toward the end of the Second World War, anew consciousness arose amongst the publicand policy makers of the Western World. Afterten years of crippling economic depressionand another five at war, the public demandedsomething new from their disintegratingurban environments. - Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END! - Widad Akreyi
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. - H. L. Mencken
By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil. - Sheldon Richman
Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. - Desiderius Erasmus
To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all—forgiveness. - Debasish Mridha
Human beings are born for peace; they like to grow up in peace. They like to raise their children in peace, and they like to say goodbye to this beautiful life in peace. Then why are we always preparing for war? - Debasish Mridha
War is too important to be left to the generals - Georges Clémenceau
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only! - Mehmet Murat ildan
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. - John Foster Dulles
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?
The first casualty when war comes is truth. - Hiram Johnson
A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. - Sandra Day O'Connor
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . - Aristophanes
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. - Alice Walker
Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self love. - Debasish Mridha
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. - Otto von Bismarck
Because," I said, "the japanese were as responsible as the Germans for turning Americans into a bunch of bankrupt militaristic fuckups - after we'd done such a good job of being sincere war-haters after the First World War. - Kurt Vonnegut
When civility is illusory, war is inevitable. - Steve Maraboli
Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war. - Helen Caldicott
The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. - Todd Stocker
In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free. Torn From the Inside Out - Sara Niles
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. - Albert Einstein
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace.My Spiritual Guides and I Le mie Guide Spirituali ed io - Adriano Bulla
Nobody returned alive from the war. - Andrija Jonić
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you. - Otto Von Bismarck
To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me! - Jon Stewart
Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times. - Winston S. Churchill
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. - Wendell Phillips
This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality. - Dave Eggers
They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose. - Michael Scott
Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. I'm ready. My toaster will never be the boss of me. Get ready to make me some Pop-Tarts, bitch. - Chuck Klosterman
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. - Giannina Braschi
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war - Charles de Gaulle
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. - John Steinbeck
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till out political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich, - a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. - Stephen Johnson Field
In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too. - Dan Abnett
War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that. - Debasish Mridha
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement. - Graeme Smith
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? - W.E.B. Du Bois
For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony. - Debasish Mridha
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse-tung
War is hell, and I mean to make it so.
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN - Widad Akreyi
A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values. - Cesare Pavese
There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love. - Katja Michael
Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. - William S. Burroughs
Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons. - Rachel Caine
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on. - Sir Winston Churchill
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch Spinoza
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength - George Orwell
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. - Abraham Flexner
Remember, adjusting your mindset for success is, at least, half the battle of anything. In the case of overcoming our fear instead of it overcoming us is more like 99% of a war waged in our head.~ - Connie Kerbs
War is the health of the state. - Randolph Bourne
Sie war ganz Frau, verlor sich an den Mann, der ihr Leben war, selbstvergessen, ohne daran zu denken, was aus ihr werden wurde - sie liebte wirklich. - Adelbert von Chamissoo
Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack. - Andrea Gibson
O Stunden in der Kindheit,da hinter den Figuren mehr als nurVergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up. - James Baldwin
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can do this. It will make the world a better place for mankind. - Debasish Mridha
Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. - Warsan Shire
When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" ) - Erik Pevernagie
What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home. - Joy Davidman
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. - Shannon L. Alder
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The war for peace can destroy the whole world. - Debasish Mridha
I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)] - Pierre Berton
I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war! - Muse
Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other. - Clifford Cohen
I think war is a crime. If you don't believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead. - Michael McCormick (Vietnam Veteran)
When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle. - Debasish Mridha
The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late. - Douglas MacArthur
On going to war over religion: You're basically killing each other to prove who's got the better imaginary friend.
It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War. - Angel Ramon Medina
This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"] - Emmanuel Aghado
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. - William Ellery Channing
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. - Muriel Rukeyser
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. - Aristotle
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. - Tiffany Madison
The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war. - Brenna Yovanoff
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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. - Jimmy Carter
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. - Alexis de Tocqueville
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. - Solomon Short
Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair. - Ronald Rolheiser
When People in sales are at work, they are at war. - honeya
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. - Jonathan Haidt
In the horrors of war, please bring me peace. - Anthony Liccione
You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way. - Will Rogers
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy
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. - Thomas Merton
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. - George Orwell
People at war with themselves will always cause collateral damage in the lives of those around them. - John Mark Green
If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war? - Debasish Mridha
Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth - Gore Vidal
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. - Jawaharlal Nehru
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace - Ulysses S. Grant
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. - Jack Handey
War is a horribly fascinating thing. - Robert Sherrod
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. - Amy Goodman
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. - Charles Darwin
She borrowed in harmony and paid back in war - Charmaine J Forde
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. - Mao Tse-Tung
No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love. - Debasish Mridha
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" - Hunter S. Thompson
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. - Mark Twain
War is organized murder and nothing else - Harry Patch
Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die. - Herbert Hoover
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. - Audre Lorde
War never can bring peace but a caring heart with love can do that. - Debasish Mridha
Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble? - Colman McCarthy
There was a war between them, between love and the right thing to do, and it kept assaulting them, kept keeping them apart. - Keira D. Skye
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 motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists? - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. - Mark Twain
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Thnk things through-then follow through. - John C. Maxwell
All is fair in fashion and war. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side. - Aleksandra Layland
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. - George W. Bush
We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace. - Herman Melville
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life. - Joss Whedon
Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. - Elie Wiesel
Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos. - Marianne Williamson
Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war. - http sheamagazine.com fiction-afterlife-chapter-24
War means fighting, and fighting means killing. - Nathan Bedford Forrest
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy
Money is the sinew of love as well as war. - Dr. Thomas Fuller
War makes early risers of us all. - Julian Fellowes
She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war. - Madeline Martin
It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. - John Hersey
War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great - Tim Clisch
Accursed be he that first invented war. - Christopher Marlowe
We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin - Shinobu Ohtaka
What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'Then we haven't got sound government. - P.D. James
During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. - Kurt Vonnegut
There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other's good. It's love, peace, beauty, happiness, truth, hope, joy, humility, kindness, and empathy. "Who wins...?""The one you feed". - MK Asante
War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up. - Christopher Johnson
Panic bells, it's red alertThere's something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by - Nena
The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton - George S. Patton Jr.
[These]were the legitimate acts of self-defense which had been forced upon the Irish people by English aggression... We did not initiate the war, nor were we allowed to choose the battleground. - Michael Collins
The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering. - Aysha Taryam
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind. - Debasish Mridha
Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between. - Kota
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory! - Mehmet Murat ildan
War is only a continuation of state policy by other means.
I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich and poor. There can be no special cases because every man at the front is a special case to someone. - Julian Fellowes
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. - Herodotus
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war - Jeannette Rankin
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. - E. B. White
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. - Winston S. Churchill
I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man's soul. - Christina Henriquez
I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by - Sara Niles
all nature is at war - Alphonse De Candolle
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. - Georges Clemenceau
Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war. - Herbert Hoover
Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. - Zainab Salbi
Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people's life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends. Human forgiveness will have limit. - Atif Iqbal Khan
War can't bring peace in the world; only understanding and love can do that. - Debasish Mridha
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3 - Erich Maria Remarque
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. - Will Rogers
Without War, there would be no such thing as Peace - Kayla Lynn De Niz Viera
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country. - George S. Patton Jr.
An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy - Machiavelli, Niccolo
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. - William S. Burroughs
I may have not done History in high school but War cannot be ended by endless talks, only Cold War. - Goitsemang Mvula
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. - William T. Sherman
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. - Omar Nelson Bradley
War will not be able to bring peace—only love and forgiveness can do that. - Debasish Mridha
Ich weiß, wer ich war, als ich heute morgen aufstand, aber ich glaube, daß ich mich seitdem mehrfach verwandelt habe. - Lewis Carroll
I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting. - E.E. Cummings
Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win. - Sarah Brownlee
Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times. - Mamur Mustapha
Endless money forms the sinews of war. - Cicero
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults. - Karl Marlantes
From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. - Alephonsion Deng
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. - Norman Mailer
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.
Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony. - Debasish Mridha
They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again. - Bob Massie
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. - John Updike
Leprechauns are not twee beings dreamed up by the tourist board, but warriors of legend. That name comes from the Celtic god of commerce and war, Lugh. Their mission, their life’s work, is to protect the gold. What better way to hide it than to become a joke, a story nobody takes seriously? - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. - Kahlil Gibran
The biggest battle is the war against ignorance. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. - David Letterman
Your life is a war between what is right and what is evil. Everyday you have to make the choice to be beaten down by the devil, or stand on your feet for God. - Shannon L. Alder
...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade. - James Henry Gooding
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during World War I.] - Ernest Rutherford
Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no ends. There’s just the means. All there is is means. - Raphael Bob-Waksberg
It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won. - Duop Chak Wuol
In love there are two evils: war and peace. - Horace
War is over ... If you want it. - John Lennon
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. - Rachel Carson
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war... War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming. - Ulysses S. Grant
War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood
A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden. - Walter Raleigh
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. - George Washington
Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause. - M.F. Moonzajer
I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. - Siegfried Sassoon
I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves. - Elizabeth Gilbert
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. - Abraham Lincoln
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. - Sarah Vowell
The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life. - Simon S. Tam
When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children - Pat Conroy
If everyone fights with the power of their love, there will be happiness, not the destruction or war. - Debasish Mridha
Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew. - Aaron Burdett
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true... - Thomas Paine
I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. - Jessica Lynch
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. - Lord William Beveridge
It is easier to start a war than to end it. - Gabriel García Márquez
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee
Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care. - Debasish Mridha
Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war. - Lawrence Samuels
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. - Desiderius Erasmus
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history. - Stephen Ambrose
Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness. - Jason Mraz
It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobbes
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. - John Maynard Keynes
A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind? - Debasish Mridha
Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world. - Max Strom
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. - Jane Addams
One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them. - Dick Winters
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it. - Charles Manson
The day two girls or women can genuinely be friends to each other, we will see then no war, camouflaged or open, between the wife and her mother-in-law in any house. - Anuj Somany
We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land. - Debasish Mridha
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. - Niccolo Machiavelli
It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation. - Stefan Molyneux
The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future - Stefan Molyneux
you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way - Will Rogers
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. - Karl Kraus
Since the advent of war many things have happened to him that he could not possibly have imagined. He wonders if this is one of the subliminal reasons men wage war. To increase the daily frequency of surprise and shock. The forerunners of revelation - Glenn Haybittle
War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. - Nikola Tesla
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights. - Paul Watson
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. - Jack Handey
When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. - William Shakespeare
War is an option of difficulties. - James Wolfe
Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate. - Richard H. Shultz Jr.
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. - Walter Goodman
Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops. - Mehmet Murat ildan
In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat. - Emily Thorne
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. - Jeannette Rankin
Remember if it's not happy then it's not the end so babe keep fighting, you'll win this war. - Paola Marie M.
Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace? - Noam Chomsky
And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again. - Suzanne Joinson
There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective? - Jay Woodman
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. - Robert Lynd
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. - Theodore Roosevelt
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Da ich nun einmal nicht imstande war, die Menschen vernünftiger zu machen, war ich lieber fern von ihnen glücklich. - Voltaire
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it. - John Lennon
War is progress, peace is stagnation - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. - Pablo Picasso
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that. - Christopher Hitchens
If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways. - Debasish Mridha
Love is the most powerful force on this world. You can't touch it but feel it. You can bind together the whole world with it, you can win the war with it. It is faster than light, sharper than laser knife. It is softer than puffer candy but can melt your heart. - Debasish Mridha
Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket. - Anthony Liccione
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann
According to the standards of the Nuremburg Trials, every American president since World War II could be convicted as a war criminal and hung. - Noam Chomsky
You need a team for war, not for negotiation. - Amit Kalantri
Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace. - Widad Akreyi
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace - Thomas Jefferson
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children. - Stefan Molyneux
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. - Homer
War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. - Mary Horlock
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer. - John H. Arnold
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice. - Theodore Roosevelt
To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution. - Amit Kalantri
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be. - A. Zampolli
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. - Denise Caruso
Every time someone tries to prevent a war from beginning...people get killed. - Captain America - The Avengers...The Age of Ultron
A nation that is built on war will forever have conflict. - Victor Dunsin
Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death. - Natalya Vorobyova
Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends. - Evelyn Waugh
Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe. - Debasish Mridha
To live is to war with trolls. - Henrik Ibsen
When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side. - Marty Rubin
It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. - Ambrose Bierce
Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear. - Ursula Franklin
Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head. - Connie Kerbs
Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind;to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a blind. - Debasish Mridha
It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved. - Margaret Thatcher
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. - Reinhold Niebuhr
I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composureA boy trapped in a war, forced to be a soliderThe weight of the world just put on top of my shouldersBut if there's one thing I know for sureIt's that my mind has had its exposureAnd my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure - Tommy Tran
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate - Marvin Gaye
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Ernest Hemingway
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's - Thomas L. Friedman
All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in the name of religion, is a complete contradiction. No pure religious leader would ever support this. - The Truth
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. - Homer
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. - Harrison Ford
The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when the war began were erased by its end. The victors had been morally conquered by the enemy. - David McReynolds
BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease - Octavia E. Butler
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore. - Ernest Hemingway
How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism! - Howard Zinn
There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war. - Warhammer 40 000 Source Book
Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - John Andrew Holmes
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by. - Rosamunde Pilcher
More often than not others will project their own insecurities onto you when they are intimidated by your light. Don't listen to them, it's a reflection of the war they're battling within. - Nikki Rowe
I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry. - Fred Hoyle
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty. - George F. Will
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth. - Henry Ford
War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it. - R.A.Delmonico
I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women. - Sarah Moss
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. - James Baldwin
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. - Norman Mailer
History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved. - Aysha Taryam
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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. - Oscar Wilde
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. - Al Capone
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobbes
Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes. - Tupac Shakur
War is not nice. - Barbara Bush
There’s no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it’s enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it’s the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade! - Marcus L. Lukusa
Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war. - William Shakespeare
War does not determine who is right-only who is left. - Bertrand Russell
So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego. - Kathy McClary
Sometimes life is nothing more that a mere constant battle of tug and war between what's best for you and what makes you happy. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
War made the state, and the state made war - Charles Tilly
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... - C. S. Lewis
Er war jetzt ein Wesen der Wände und Zimmer, ein Sklave des Essens [...]. - T.C. Boyle
Word warfare is going on, which is not less destructive than any War. Words can be more destructive than any type of destructive weapons. Violence of any form starts in human mind and manifests in emotions, behaviors and finally in actions. - William Gomes
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Artemus Ward
If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law. - Hersch Lauterpacht
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. - Isaac Asimov
Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control? - Lionel Suggs
Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. - Debasish Mridha
You can't fight in here....this is the War Room!!
You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you a new way. - Will Rogers
A bad peace is worse than war. - Tacitus
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. - Avril Lavigne
In life we can never really value peace unless we experience war. - Auliq-Ice
Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato
We may win the war but not the soul; we may gain the power but not the peace. - Debasish Mridha
I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So close to the other side, so far from the wonder. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So sick of the tug of war, that keeps pulling me under - 5 Seconds of Summer
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. - Sir James Glover
The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. - Stefan Molyneux
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? - Arundhati Roy
Every war of ideas turns violent sooner or later. - Marty Rubin
The holy war is warfare. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued. - Helen Keller
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. - Frank Herbert
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage - Noah Feldman
He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head - Chris Martin
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I was against the Iraq war I was against the Afghan war I was against bombing Libya and Syria but to be quite honest and with a heavy heart because more innocent people are gonna be killed....We have to step in and help wipeout ISIS! - Cal Sarwar
love is like a war, easy to start, difficult to end and hard to forget - Clensy
When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases. - Unotjari Festus Kavari
I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace. - Monica Fairview
There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel. - David D. Flowers
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeannette Rankin
War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage. - Niccolo Machiavelli
It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war. - Debasish Mridha
Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying - David Mack
War is merely the continuation of politics by other means - Carl von Clausewitz
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. - Gustave de Molinari
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. - George Orwell
The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. - Jonathan Larson
I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace! - Israelmore Ayivor
You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you. - William E. Peterson
I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. - Louis Pasteur
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I think war is a dangerous place. - George W. Bush
If everyone empowers themselves with power of their love, there will be only happiness and no war. - Debasish Mridha
Make fun, not war. - Marty Rubin
The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings. - Toba Beta
If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. - Debasish Mridha
Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy. - Debasish Mridha
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - William Shakespeare
It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes... - Pat Robertson
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. - Homer
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. - William Shakespeare
...and in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy?
One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace. - Adriano Bulla
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. - Chuck Palahniuk
We always desire peace yet we prepare to go to war. - Debasish Mridha
War is just to those to whom war is necessary. - Titus Livius
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. - Sun-tzu
It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war. - M.M. Kaye
Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield. - Rick Yancey
Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say. - Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. - Paul Rodriguez
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. - Woodrow Wilson
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. - Sam Harris
Boredom slays more of existence than war. - Norman Mailer
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. - Sun-Tzu
Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other. - Clifford Cohen
Imprisoned peace sets the war free - Munia Khan
It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend. - Luis Marques
They be marching hand in hand, like going to war. - Alice Walker
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender. - Terry Jones
At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace. - Victor Hugo
He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious. - Asghar Abbas
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. - Demosthenes
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 much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. - Simone Weil
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West
A series of howls and war cries echoed through the camp....The werewolves and Japanese had attacked."-pg.353 Forbidden Nights with a Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. - Virginia Woolf
They had long ago forsaken the war of newspapers for the one they carried everywhere with them, and which had no colors, no sides, and which could be fit neatly to any new opportunity that presented itself: ambush, pillage, torture. - Taylor Brown
I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me. - Tahereh Mafi
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Artemus Ward
[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. - Dan Quayle
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. - Agatha Christie
The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. - George Lynch
If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war. - Debasish Mridha
The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty. - Paul Watson
I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. - Lierre Keith
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. - Edmund Spenser
Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation. - Duane Hewitt
If you lose one battle, don’t give up. Get up again, you have a war to win. - Sira Masetti
War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young - Wilbur Smith
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind - Henrik Ibsen
We need to win by the power of love, not by the destruction of war. - Debasish Mridha
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. - Walter Benjamin
It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart - Collen Hoover
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything. - Frida Kahlo
I have watched a lot of films... about war... but still I can't understand what's the purpose of war???Killing inocent people??About religion... so my god says that killing other people isn't acceptable... but your is acceptable???WTF - Deyth Banger
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik - Chris Hedges
How is it possible to have a civil war? - George Carlin
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come. - Carl Sandburg
I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war than threaten to steal a man's soul. - Christina Henriquez
Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. - Steven Magee
For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win - Robert A. Taft
Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours. - Sari Nusseibeh
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others. - Niccolo Machiavelli
War does not determine who is right only who is left. - Anonymous
One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace. - Robert F. Hartley
The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are. - Heraclitus
Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship. - Pratik Akkawar
The Major only glanced at the newspaper these days, tired of trying to comprehend a situation which defied comprehension, a war without battles or trenches. - J.G. Farrell
We make war that we may live in peace. - Aristotle
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. - John Steinbeck
If all of us make peace as a purpose of our life, how could there be war? - Debasish Mridha
Für einen Augenblick horchte er in den lautlos fallenden Schnee hinaus. Die Stille war vollkommen. Es war das Schweigen der Berge, das er so gut kannte und das doch immer noch imstande war, sein Herz mit Angst zu füllen. - Robert Seethaler
War can't bring peace only understanding and love can do that. - Debasish Mridha
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. - Lois McMaster Bujold
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. - Sir Francis Bacon
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. - H.G. Wells
An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. - Jim
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. - Leon Trotsky
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign - José de Alencar
When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven. - Shannon L. Alder
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. - Chris Hedges
An unjust peace is better than a just war. - Cicero
Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier - oladosu feyikogbon
War is based on deception. - Sun-Tzu
In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace. - Henry Clay
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. - Patrick Cockburn
One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror. - Kari Martindale
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961] - John F. Kennedy
No soldier ever really survives a war. - Audie Murphy
When our brains declare war on our very existence. - Jenny Lawson
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families. - Pythagoras
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers. - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war. - Paul Beatty
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori
Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change. - Dana Gore
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. - George Washington
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. - Jean-Paul Sartre
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. - Ann Coulter
There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children! - Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war - Francis Collins
* , a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar
To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish. - Nikki Rowe
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. - Alan Alda
If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies. - Anthony Liccione
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. - Herbert Hoover
War has no winners and peace, no losers - Ashok Kallarakkal
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James Baldwin
Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. - Gustave de Molinari
We may make contact with ambitious species on other planets or stars; soon thereafter there will be interplanetary war. Then, and only then, will we of this earth be one. - will and Ariel Durant
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them. - Alexander the Great
Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan - Noormohammad Bhuayan
Orcs do not have enemies. Monde tried to search for the proper term, We have…adversaries.Isn’t that the same thing?Depends on who’s winning the war. - Sabrina Zbasnik
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence. - Stefan Molyneux
After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. - Herodotus
We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won - Ronald Reagan
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Going to war to establish peace will not bring peace. It will just kill you. - Debasish Mridha
An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said.An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. - Sebastian Junger
War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon. - Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm
It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of itRobert E. Lee - Greg Seeley
She gave thee beauty—blush of fire, That bids the flames of war retire! Woman! be fair, we must adore thee; Smile, and a world is weak before thee! - Anacreon - 485 BC
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. - Maria Montessori
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. - Jay Samit
From the quote of mine with knowledge of impacts:-Speed dupe the mind and visionSpeed maters in the war and love! - Alam Bakshi
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war. - John F. Kennedy
There are no winners of war, only survivors and even they die inside from guilt. They only physically survive to warn us. To warn us that there is nothing more terrible than what they have done.
Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire. - Linda Berdoll
I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
I don't care if it's Twilight or Fifty Shades or War and Peace; never let someone make you ashamed of what you love to read. - Rae Carson
War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget. - Robert Graff
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. - Peggy Noonan
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. - Albert Einstein
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. - M. F. K. Fisher
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell
The opposite of war isnt peace its creation - Jonathan Larson
...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened. - Vera Brittain
Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home! - Marjane Satrapi
So zu tun, als wäre man jemand anders, war eine tröstliche Form der Flucht, aber es bestand die Gefahr, dass der wahre Edward Manning unter all den Rollen nicht mehr zu erkennen war. - Lesley Pearse
War is when young men dream of being grandfathers. - Erri De Luca
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. - Thomas Jefferson
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military's job is to win the war. The president's job is to win the peace. - John Kerry
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? - Eve Merriam
Peace is not merely the absence of war or conflict but the presence of tranquility, harmony and love. - Debasish Mridha
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. - Mother Teresa
War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present. - christoforos darbinian
Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government). - Stefan Molyneux
Before the war. Adults must use this phrase a zillion times a day. - Eva Gray
Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war! - Brandon Mull
There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace. - Arundhati Roy
It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The war has put its skeleton fingers even into our pockets. (pg:40) - Virginia Woolf
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him. - Mccann Colum
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. - Dan Quayle
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war? - Hermocrates of Syracuse
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. - Ursula K. Le Guin
We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be! - Debasish Mridha
This was fast becoming messy war with our hall now covered in foam and a puddle of green slime... - Andy Dale
In times of war, the law falls silent.Silent enim leges inter arma - Marcus Tullius Cicero
In war there is no substitute for victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose. - Ayn Rand
Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets. - Tupac Shakur
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. - George Washington
Zeit war so wertvoll, sie war das größte Geschenk, zu dem man fähig war. Jemandem seine Zeit zu schenken bedeutete, ihm einen Teil seiner Selbst zu widmen, den man nicht mehr zurücknehmen konnte. - Katharina Seck
Ego seeks the domination by war, but spirit seeks the peace through love. - Debasish Mridha
The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls. - Paul Nash
In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one. - Napoléon Bonaparte
No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground. - Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. - Warren Buffett
I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know. - Ishmael Beah
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children - Howard Zinn
Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside? - Anthony Liccione
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. - Albert Einstein
When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war? - Debasish Mridha
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. - Jose Narosky
Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.
In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign. - Christina Engela
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. - Oscar Wilde
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. - Omar Bradley
War is a seed of bigger war, but Peace is the seed of God. - Iisakki Totuudentalo
Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily be enough to make us wish we’d died in battle instead. - Agnostic Zetetic
There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion. - Debasish Mridha
I am a war president. - George W. Bush
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. - Toni Morrison
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war. - Shannon L. Alder
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. - Eugene B. Sledge
People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace. - Mark Ryan
War is young men dying and old men talking - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me. - M.B. Dallocchio
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought. - Ernest Hemingway
On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machine in conflicts for the profits of America’s oligarchy. - Kenneth Eade
Sweet is war to those who know it not. - Pindar
The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes. - Semezdin Mehmedinović
The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace. - Debasish Mridha
All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.The Creators have IMMORTALITY.The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'To award IMMORTALITY...FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits - Tiffany Thompson
Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity. - Jason Versey
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'. - Winston S. Churchill
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. - Spanish Proverb
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. - Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war - Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
And she called him a stranger. Whose name still echoed in her mind like a war cry. Who had seen each bit of her naked soul and knew how scarred her soul is. Whose reflection still stood, smiling at her every time she stood in front of the mirror. - Akshay Vasu
I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. - Sarah Palin
War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore. - Wouter Van Gastel
I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Women and children make you weak; get rid of them when you are in war. - M.F. Moonzajer
The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise. - Debasish Mridha
Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) - Jim Harrison
war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. - Napoleon Hill
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. - Jay Leno
We must conquer war, or war will conquer us. - Ely Gulbertson
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. - Benjamin Disraeli
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character. - Baruch Spinoza
You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it. - Shannon L. Alder
Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch. - Jillian Lauren
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Even the most ambitious among us know to work from the shadows. We’re not interested in another war between Light and Dark. Not until the power balance has shifted, anyway. That’s where you come in. –Aedus Butler - Zechariah Barrett
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
War is like love; it always finds a way. - Bertolt Brecht
To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I. - Hannah Senesh
War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. - Samuel Moyn
Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood. - Mao Tse-tung
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. - Ernest Hemingway
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. - Tom Hanks
You are truly living when you have inner peace. You are far away from the beauty of life when you are fighting a war. - Debasish Mridha
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back. - Robert A. Taft
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. - Ambrose Bierce
Either war is obsolete or men are. - R. Buckminster Fuller
Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood. - Terry Kay
Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people. - Jon Stewart
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. - George Konrád
War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture. - Stanisław Lem
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? - Eleanor Roosevelt
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. - Cicero
War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that. - Debasish Mridha
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. - Ludwig von Mises
I am always at peace even when I am in the midst of war. - Debasish Mridha
Never think you can convince God through prayer for a blessing. Praying for prosperity is a wrong weapon for war. If prayer could bring money, all intercessors would be billionaires. - Apostle T. Vutabwashe
In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only the dead has seen th end of war - Mirza Tabish
If we don't end war, war will end us. - H.G. Wells
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. - Jimmy Carter
We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is? - Debasish Mridha
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. - Havelock Ellis
When we will learn to use the power of love to win the war, universal peace and happiness will be there. - Debasish Mridha
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. - Niccolo Machiavelli
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. - General Douglas MacArthur
Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. - Balroop Singh
I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner. - Debasish Mridha
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems - Siegfried Sassoon
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