Quotes about war
war passion flames
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Eamon de Valera
war world ready
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
war america proud
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
war years sea
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
war night historical
If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night
war mean haig
Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd! E. V. Lucas
war food hero
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. E. W. Howe
war thinking talking
I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it. Dwight Schultz
war thinking band
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting. Colin Meloy
war talking office
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. Colin Quinn
war iran kuwait
It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war with Iran; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that fired chemical weapons at Iran; it was Iraq. And it was not the United States that murdered innocent Iraqi citizens with chemical weapons; it was Iraq. Colin Powell
war effort political
War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.
war way united-states
The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
war responsibility government
Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
war numbers antiwar
That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.
war president cards
President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
war
When you have a war going down in your neighborhood, you're not excited,
war winning stupidity
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war? Orson Scott Card
war pieces firsts
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days. Robert Anderson
war thinking age
I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.
war survivor accepting
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning. Patrick Ness
war irritation bachelors
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.
war suffering careful
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
war lying winning
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
war kids shots
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war. George H. W. Bush
war literature shade
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. John le Carre
war casualties ends
Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. Kurt Vonnegut
war machines development
When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.
war school government
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.
war attractive-things littles
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
war thinking sick
Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
war character people
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
war slaughterhouse-five veteran
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.