Quotes on war
I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.
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Brett Butler Quotes
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.
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Pacifist Badge Quotes
There were 312 premature babies at Kuwait City's maternity hospital who died after Iraqi soldiers stole their incubators and left the infants on the floor,
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George H.W. Bush Quotes
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Clarence Darrow Quotes
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
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Georges Clemenceau Quotes
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The U. S. has to make it clear to Iraq and U. S. allies that ... America will use force without negotiation, hesitation or U. N. approval. ... We have to be ready to live with our own contradictory policy. Sure, it doesn't make perfect sense.
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Thomas Friedman Quotes
In an incredible perversion of justice, former soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisonous chemicals on Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have been damaged by them, appeal to the people for sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant "Agent Orange" are discussed at length, but not one single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware of has even mentioned the effects of the people who still live in those regions of Vietnam. It's as outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized had finally made them sick. The staggering monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as in a Kafka novel.
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Fred Woodworth Quotes
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
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François Fénelon Quotes
War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included.
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Robert Hall Quotes
War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
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Charles Edward Montague Quotes
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.
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Pieter Geyl Quotes
They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all.
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Clair J. Clark Quotes
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
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Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters.
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Edward Gibbon Quotes
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
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George Meredith Quotes
Will the threat of common extermination continue? Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Pope John Paul II Quotes
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.
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Louis Simpson Quotes
What a country calls its vital interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
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Simone Weil Quotes
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geograhy, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give thei
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John Adams Quotes
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
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Michael Moore Quotes
I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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Gore Vidal Quotes
In war, truth is the first casualty.
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Aeschylus Quotes
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
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José Narosky Quotes
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
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Holly Near Quotes
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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Omar Bradley Quotes
I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well-paid, well-trained, well-equipped.
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George W. Bush Quotes
If the tiger ever stands still, the elephant will crush him with his mighty tusks. But the tiger will not stand still. He will leap upon the back of the elephant, tearing huge chunks from his side, and then he will leap back into the dark jungle. And slowly the elephant will bleed to death. Such will be the war in Indochina.
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Ho Chi Minh Quotes
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
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George Patton Quotes
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
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David Lloyd George Quotes
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
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Thomas de Quincey Quotes
Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
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Douglas Jerrold Quotes
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
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Sir George Porter Quotes
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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.
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Sun Tzu Quotes
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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Charles Lamb Quotes
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
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Sun Tzu Quotes
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"
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Eve Merriam Quotes
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
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Henry Miller Quotes
We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
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German Proverb Quotes
The war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path to action. And this nation will act.
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George W. Bush Quotes
If we don't end war, war will end us.
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H.G. Wells Quotes
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
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Robert E. Lee Quotes
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
If mankind recognizes that war is impossible, that all national rivalries are foolish, if they get together any kind of an extension of detente, then we may pull out of it all the better for it.
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
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George McGovern Quotes
Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
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Sun Tzu Quotes
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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Norman Cousins Quotes
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.
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Lucy Ellman Quotes
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
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Joseph Heller Quotes
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
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Pope John Paul II Quotes
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
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Michael Servetus Quotes
War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it.
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Mark Twain Quotes
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Voltaire Quotes
The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians.
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Colin Ward Quotes
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Barack Obama Quotes
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
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Horace Quotes