Quotes about war
war police drug
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. Tupac Shakur
war poor
They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.
war father men
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. Trevor Nunn
war historical musical
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.
war people sick
I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented. Tracy Morgan
war men suffering
Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war. Vera Brittain
war writing mean
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.
war modern civilisation
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
war thinking self
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do. Vera Farmiga
war creativity men
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. Van Wyck Brooks
war lines normal
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. Ulrich Beck
war fighting empathy
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes. Uma Thurman
war army civil-war
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. Ulysses S. Grant
war punishment presidential
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
war men europe
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.
war men white-man
The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
war civil-war turns
It will be all right if it turns out all right.
war had-enough shows
Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
war history devil
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
war progressive instruments
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.
war slavery ends
I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.
war clerks paper
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
war gun men
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
war daylight retreat
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
war military bad-ass
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
war thinking history
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
war tired thinking
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
war army texas
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
war order soldier
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
war heart abuse
...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.
war military fiction
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
war views years
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.
war mean patriotic
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.