Words matter. These are the best Peacetime Quotes from famous people such as Phil Klay, Francoise Gilot, Ross Kemp, Charles Duhigg, R. Lee Ermey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
I’ve always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there’s been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, ‘We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We’re proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don’t come drinking in my pub.’
General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.
Back in the old Corp, we weren’t training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, ‘Will we ever go into combat?’
There’s peacetime and there’s wartime, and you don’t need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics retains abundant masculine rituals. Prime minister’s question time in Britain, for instance, is a stylised duel and tournament redolent of testosterone.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
I don’t think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
When you look at a company that’s already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn’t necessarily when it’s executing well. It tends to be peacetime – you’ve defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I’m just not sure I was born to be in peace time.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it’s much too painful.
