Quotes about war
war men abolish
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man. Bertrand Russell
war thinking years
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh-a process taking say 500 years. Stated just one month after the Hiroshima atomic explosion. Russell became one of the best-known antinuclear activists of his era.
war past men
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink or gambling.
war ordinary human-nature
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
war mean government
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.
war victory world
It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.
war two matter
When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.
war needs civilisation
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
war worst prepare-for-the-worst
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war. Bernard Kouchner
war winning land
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel. Bernard Cornwell
war mean tears
There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.
war today cold
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. Bernard Baruch
war men weaponry
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
war shooting cold
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
war technology issues
We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated. Cass Sunstein
war believe president
We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize. Carol Moseley Braun
war struggle snakes
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.
war men bombers
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now. Carol Vorderman
war eye men
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer. Charles Mackay
war fighting cities
Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress? Charles Manson
war hippie horror
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. Charles Inglis
war trying trials
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention. Charles Guggenheim
war too-much good-things
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. Charles Frazier
war liberty fury
War hath no fury like a non-combatant. Charles Edward Montague
war men two
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side Bob Riley
war believe priorities
I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority. Bob Casey, Jr.
war military moving
Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term. Bob Barr
war iraq approval
I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
war fall approval-rating
A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.
war school winning
What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power - that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win. Bill McCartney
war military eye
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. Bill Mauldin
warning wake-up climate-change
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them. Bill McKibben
war eye guy
It's a little strange when you have never been to war, and you eye-roll about a guy who's got shrapnel still in his body, as Chuck Hagel does. Bill Maher