War Quotes: Reflecting on the Consequences of Conflict and the Quest for Peace
Contemplating the Nature of War
War is a devastating and destructive force that has shaped the course of history and impacted countless lives. It represents the darkest aspects of humanity, marked by violence, loss, and suffering. In this article, we delve into the realm of war and present a collection of poignant quotes that encourage us to reflect on its consequences, advocate for peace, and strive for a world free from the ravages of conflict.
War arises from a myriad of complex factors, including political disputes, ideological differences, and the struggle for power. It tears apart communities, fractures societies, and inflicts immeasurable pain on individuals and families. It is a stark reminder of the urgent need for dialogue, diplomacy, and compassionate understanding.
Words of Reflection: Quotes that Advocate for Peace
Throughout history, philosophers, activists, and individuals who have experienced the horrors of war have shared their insights and reflections on the futility and tragedy of armed conflict. Their words serve as a reminder of the profound cost of war and inspire us to work tirelessly towards building a world where peace prevails. Below, we present a collection of thought-provoking war quotes that invite contemplation, compassion, and a renewed commitment to pursuing peaceful solutions.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’
I was born into Sudan’s civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there’s the house of war.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
What is more immoral than war?
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you’re going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it’s like we called Saddam’s army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
This union has been divided in like a civil war – brother against brother – sister against sister. And I’m pulling it together. We’ve already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Rock ‘n’ roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
I have my cousin’s jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It’s incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
‘Turn to Stone’ was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It’s a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It’s the failure of diplomacy. ‘War and Peace,’ ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It’s mostly about random pointless death and misery.
The military people don’t like it; the government probably doesn’t like it, but the people should know what they’re sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
We make war that we may live in peace.
What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I’m still struggling with it, 40 years later.
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
A true war story is never moral.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming ‘War Horse’ on Dartmoor.
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue – not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren’t shy about what they don’t like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule of law. They really dislike the police, and certainly get the credit for the war between black men and police.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a ‘third force’ in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
Our soldiers fought in the Korean War to push back communism. As a result of their effort and the effort of our allies, South Korea is free today.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That’s why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
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.
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
War is at its best barbarism.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility – a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
War is a profane thing.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.
War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin’s awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two factions because they were trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink to win the ratings war.
Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
Ukraine told me I couldn’t return. They put me on a list of terrorists and war criminals.
In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it’s something that made every American take war seriously.
I like war.
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
War is the trade of Kings.
I would trade 20 white babies for an Asian baby. If I’m ever rich, I want a closet full of Asian babies. And I’ll just pull them out whenever I’m feeling down, you know? All kinds. Korean ones. Chinese ones. Vietnamese – not so much. My dad was in the war, and I hold a grudge.
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
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.
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
War is failure of diplomacy.
I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it’s not something you want to remember or think about.
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there’s part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
The great object is that every man be armed.
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
I made ‘Saving Private Ryan’ for my father. He’s the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.
The history of mankind is a history of war.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
War remains the decisive human failure.
I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn’t helped users or addicts.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It’s not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it’s madness.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
We’ve waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don’t know how to explain it more. It’s universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain – not pain, arguments. I’ve grown quite comfortable with being at war.
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures… I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with ‘Once upon a time.’
I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost – and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn’t there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war’s dislocation.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we’d probably go to war.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Regardless of what one’s attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
War’s stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
Accursed be he that first invented war.
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called ‘White Feathers.’ It was produced in the studio theatre at the students’ union in early 1999, when I was 21. It’s 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Surviving is the only glory in war.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.
Man becomes his most creative during war.
War is the province of danger.
In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Public diplomacy was an effective Cold War weapon.
Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren’t any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn’t necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them – active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular – to try and end the war.
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
Peace is produced by war.
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.
It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty.’
A hospital alone shows what war is.
I have not yet begun to fight!
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so.
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the executive branch before involving ourselves in a military conflict.
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Over the year,s the government launched more than one ‘war on corruption,’ and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it’s people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it’s also a cause for war and bloodshed.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it’s all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It’s had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we’re much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
The State thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
In time of peace prepare for war.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.
We’ve killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war – mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can’t declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism ‘inevitably’ caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
As I was writing ‘The Shock Doctrine’, I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.
Conquered, we conquer.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
In many… cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you’re seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you’re seeing all-out war.
There’s some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the ’60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can’t function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.
I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it’s a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.
Morality is contraband in war.
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
American GIs don’t fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson’s.
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Women don’t go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts – we have learned only recently how close we were to war – but I knew enough to make me tremble.
In defence of Madiba’s legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
War is a contagion.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the ‘eternal sentry.’ The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
War is not cheap, but it’s the human cost that’s the highest.
Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross and I grew up with that mining background. My father was a miner and my granddad was a miner, and I would say three out of ten on the street where I was born were working in the pits.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history – the Holodomor and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the totalitarian Soviet regime.
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it’s the bicentennial of his birth. I’ve known a lot about the Civil War, but I’m just getting more into it.
A siege is an act of war.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That’s the last time I cried.
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
The first lesson is that you can’t lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can’t win a war if you haven’t.
Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.
From the point of the view of the nation’s power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
War is the science of destruction.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They’ll bankrupt you. Don’t ask a general for advice on war, and don’t ask a broker for advice on money.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada’s war effort as effective as possible.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
After every war someone has to tidy up.
The real war will never get in the books.
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
The lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in ‘Toward a New Cold War’ are invaluable. The United States, like any other nations, can and does err, and often in a big way. But Chomsky cannot support at all his implicit diagnosis that America is ‘bad.’
Let’s be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops – people willing to lay down their lives for this country – not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we’ve got to end the war on trans Americans.
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.
You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.
Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves – their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles.
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
‘But,’ say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, ‘we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.’ On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
The war correspondent has his stake – his life – in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
In the epic war over Silicon Valley’s intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for intellectual property. He wasn’t on the side of the hackers, and he didn’t want information to be free.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
The men and women who served during the Vietnam War are often overlooked.
I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.
In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. ‘Private Edwards, E.’, a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping… If war was a game of cards, I’d say someone was cheating.
If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
In conclusion, war quotes serve as a solemn reminder of the devastating impact of armed conflict and the urgent need for peace. As we contemplate the consequences of war, may these quotes inspire us to advocate for peaceful resolutions, to promote understanding and empathy, and to strive for a world where dialogue and diplomacy prevail over violence and aggression. Let us work together to build a future where conflicts are resolved through compassion, justice, and a shared commitment to the well-being of all humanity.
