Quotes about war
war slaughterhouse-five literature
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Kurt Vonnegut
war reading long
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.
war father home
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag.
war grandchildren industry
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
war nice worry
A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
war gun two
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
war men artist
Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.
war reading thinking
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot. Madeleine Albright
war gymnastics elephants
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
war iraq iran
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
war home life-is-hard
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
war iraq administration
The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.
war thinking economic-sanctions
I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.
war book hands
Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace. William Shakespeare
war dark wife
War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.
war honor companionship
If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?
war thinking insightful
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. Warren Buffett
war book quality
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book. Camille Paglia
war media class
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.
warfare kind terror
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror. Caleb Carr
war
Never start a war with something you can't talk to. C. J. Cherryh
war government world
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital. C. L. R. James
war germany defeated
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
war
No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back. Catherynne M. Valente
war bridges black
Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
war space when-you-love-someone
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.
war reading winning
War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
war cutting cake
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
war father shadow
Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.
warm freeze softness
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
war years impact
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years Carl Levin
war neurosis mental-illness
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. Carl Jung
war men epidemics
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.