Quotes about war
war army equality
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler? Josephine Baker
war men want
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. Joseph Wood Krutch
war men ill-will
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
war thinking iraq
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms. Joseph Stiglitz
war soldier cost
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.
war oil iraq
We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.
war cutting america
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax relief for the wealthy.
war impact iraq
The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.
war oil iraq
The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.
war enough expensive
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive. Joseph Heller
war broke catch-22-important
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
war drug can-do
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
war government fields
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
war winning people
¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨
war writing ideas
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.
war winning differences
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
war two forever
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It." Joseph Campbell
war excuse crusades
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. Karl Shapiro
war iraq wmd
Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it, Karl Rove
war thinking ideas
I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].
war understanding saws
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
war fighting civilization
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions. Karl Popper
war conflict torn
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself. Karen Horney
war believe play
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole. Juliet Marillier
war moving games
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever. Julie Garwood
war europe iron
Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend. Joseph Goebbels
war europe iron
If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.
war military want
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
war giving office
If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses
war hate fighting
The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.
war normal problem
The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
war news information
During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
war hate class
The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.