Quotes about war
war asia scared
I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis. Al-Waleed bin Talal
war risk impossibility
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Alain Badiou
war land two
The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. Alain de Botton
war world lists
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. Al Capone
warrior men iraq
As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf. Al Franken
war rights liberty
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace. Al Franken
war winning sight
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace. Al Gore
war civilization survival
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself... Al Gore
war believe home
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future. Al Gore
war struggle civilization
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations. Al Gore
war struggle sacrifice
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge. Al Gore
war heart numbers
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century. Al Gore
war tasks world
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world. Al Gore
war term hardest
I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war. Charles James Fox
war wish lasts
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree. Charles James Fox
war believe impact
I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself ... Charles Kennedy
war names people
[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day. Charles Kimball
war libertarian revisionism
Perpetual war for perpetual peace Charles A. Beard
war taken government
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government. Charles A. Beard
war world fruit
As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved. Charles Bass
war dark sky
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. Black Kettle
war evil wish
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious. Blaise Pascal
war conflict reason
The war existing between the senses and reason. Blaise Pascal
war believe long
I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you. Bill Hicks
war drug rich
....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week. Bill Hicks
war numbers alcohol
If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender. Bill Hicks
war next cold
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. Bill Hicks
war home night
The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one. Bill Hicks
war social mankind
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. Elihu Root
war wish savages
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. Elihu Root
war men law
The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective. Elihu Root
war long community
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. Elihu Root
war civilization causes
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. Elihu Root