Quotes about war
war fool
It takes a fool to rush off to war! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
war trying bombs
Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.
war cutting men
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
war men vices
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution. Alec Guinness
war differences humanity
Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have. Alejandro Jodorowsky
war hair atoms
It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair. Aleister Crowley
war order information
The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians. Alberto Gonzales
war casualties terror
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
war two wife
I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler. Albert Einstein
war hate war-love
I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
war fighting praise
Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
war believe school
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press
war struggle party
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
war fighting men
Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
war common-sense people
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
war mind ordinary
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
war pieces despicable
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
war doe warfare
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated...
war men soul
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
war hatred intellectual
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
war past men
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
war people ends
Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
war government order
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
war government
That is the best Government, which best provides for war. Algernon Sidney
war writing impossible
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible. Alfred Nobel
war military army
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
war father hammers
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
war protect
War can protect; it cannot create. Alfred North Whitehead
war thinking people
If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call "stupidity" and even a great deal of what we consider "insanity" might disappear, and the "intractable" problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution. Alfred Korzybski
war spirit blind-obedience
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. Alexander Berkman
war mean thinking
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
war men opposites
Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.
war mean stupidity
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.