Quotes about war
war unique hot
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances. Atifete Jahjaga
war civilization class
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two. Arnold J. Toynbee
war years people
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast. Arnold Bennett
war military thinking
I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict. Antony Beevor
war people grandfather
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. Antonio Tabucchi
war poetry drug
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. Antonin Artaud
war order competition
And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.
war giving hatred
Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion. Frederic Bastiat
war grandmother feelings
I’ve never cheated on a lover. I’m faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone’s feelings. Every time.” Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she’d ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she’d given birth to Gwen’s grandmother. Gena Showalter
war teaching creating
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. Derek Bok
war humble enemy
In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. Denzel Washington
warrior want ifs
If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.
war night saying-nothing
our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. Denise Levertov
war
the possibility of war is real and very disturbing. Jack Straw
war self self-love
He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love William Shakespeare
war god-of-war hideous
The hideous god of war.
war army night
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
war england conquer
That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
war nice gambling
Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.
war sleep men
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
war deeds anarchy
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
war night waking
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
war valor prize
It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.
war land play
Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
war lying men
Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
war farewell ambition
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
war farewell ambition
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
war tyrants comfort
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.
war television world
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war Kurt Vonnegut
war eye boys
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
war believe glaciers
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
war government drug
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
war people stories
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.