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.
Butler, Brett
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Russell, Bertrand
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.
Hemingway, Ernest
What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.
Unknown, Author
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,
Bush, George H.W.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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.
Lincoln, Abraham
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.
Friedman, Thomas
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Churchill, Winston
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Fénelon, François
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.
Ellis, Alice Thomas
Will the threat of common extermination continue? Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
II, Pope John Paul
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
Adams, John
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.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
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.
Moore, Michael
I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
Vidal, Gore
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Narosky, José
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Near, Holly
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Bradley, Omar
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
Patton, George
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?
Jerrold, Douglas
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.
Unknown, Author
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.
Tzu, Sun
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?
Carlyle, Thomas
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Lamb, Charles
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.
Tzu, Sun
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"
Merriam, Eve
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Russell, Bertrand
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
McGovern, George
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.
Ward, Colin
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Obama, Barack