Quotes about war
war evil people
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.' Leo Tolstoy
war storm special
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
war alternatives empire-strikes-back
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances. Leigh Brackett
war soldier world
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. Lester B. Pearson
war important today
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
war men easy
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
war agreement stronger
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
war europe usual
War is the usual condition of Europe. Peter Kropotkin
war drug minorities
Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
war hands years
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
war cancer hate
Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons. Peter Kreeft
war stories world
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible. Peter Bergen
war want jingoism
I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it. Peter Berg
war ignorance hatred
All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions. Pema Chodron
war heart humans
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
war world remember
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. Phil Donahue
war want nuclear
We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack? Peter Sellers
war college thinking
Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..." Peter Jacobson
war vietnam firsts
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. Peter Jennings
war father home
Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten Peter Carey
war flip sides
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness. Pete Hegseth
war fighting enemy
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
war peaceful odd
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. Pete Hamill
war cities long
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.
war domestic-violence lines
Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women. Pearl Cleage
war tragedy would-be
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. Phyllis Diller
war fighting parent
I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.
war fighting cost
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight. Philip Pullman
war fighting giving
If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?
war book technology
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.
war animal men
Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends. Rachel Carson
war fighting soldier
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
war military roman-soldiers
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.