| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Sun Tzu | The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.  | 76 |
| Donald Trump | Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. | 101 |
| Sun Tzu | Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. | 101 |
| Baruch Spinoza | Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. | 101 |
| Douglas MacArthur | The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. | 101 |
| John Stuart Mill | War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. | 101 |
| Robert E. Lee | What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. | 101 |
| Thomas Hobbes | The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. | 101 |
| Herbert Hoover | Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. | 101 |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 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. | 101 |
| John Adams | I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. | 101 |
| Otto von Bismarck | The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. | 101 |
| B. H. Liddell Hart | Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many. | 101 |
| Chris Kyle | It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. | 101 |
| Craig Ferguson | If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in. | 101 |
| Douglas Haig | The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. | 101 |
| Elaine Pagels | Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope. | 101 |
| Fidel Castro | I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. | 101 |
| Gunter Grass | 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? | 101 |
| Ignatius of Antioch | Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end. | 101 |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. | 101 |
| Karen DeCrow | No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. | 101 |
| Kate Adie | War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks. | 101 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. | 101 |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. | 101 |
| Oliver North | We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals. | 101 |
| Otto Hahn | I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition. | 101 |
| Peter Arnett | The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. | 101 |
| Quintus Tullius Cicero | During war, the laws are silent. | 101 |
| Sarah Silverman | It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head. | 101 |
| Sebastian Junger | No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. | 101 |
| Stephen Douglas | 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. | 101 |
| Suzanne Collins | One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. | 101 |
| Tom Hiddleston | I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.' | 101 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. | 101 |
| Walter Dean Myers | One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. | 101 |
| Wilfred Owen | My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. | 101 |
| Xavier Becerra | February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. | 101 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. | 101 |
| Alexander Berkman | War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. | 101 |
| Alison Jackson | You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter. | 101 |
| Bob Graham | In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities. | 101 |
| Bob Woodward | After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. | 101 |
| Brendan I. Koerner | Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment. | 101 |
| C. Wright Mills | The principal cause of war is war itself. | 101 |
| Carly Simon | A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. | 101 |
| Chelsea Clinton | I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. | 101 |
| Cindy Sheehan | I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world. | 101 |
| Dana Rohrabacher | And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war. | 101 |
| Dennis Kucinich | I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again. | 101 |
| Eamon de Valera | From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality. | 101 |
| Elias Canetti | Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. | 101 |
| Evan Bayh | To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th. | 101 |
| Frank Whittle | A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. | 101 |
| Friedrich St. Florian | I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really. | 101 |
| George Grosz | I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter. | 101 |
| George Wald | Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. | 101 |
| Graham Nash | I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. | 101 |
| Hanoi Hannah | Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on. | 101 |
| Herman Kahn | World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. | 101 |
| Henry Anatole Grunwald | Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism. | 101 |
| Jeannette Rankin | You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. | 101 |
| John Paul Jones | I have not yet begun to fight! | 101 |
| Kathleen Troia McFarland | We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives. | 101 |
| Niger Innis | After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. | 101 |
| Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus | In time of peace prepare for war. | 101 |
| Pat Buchanan | As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country. | 101 |
| Pierre Curie | Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. | 101 |
| Robert M. La Follette | In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war. | 101 |
| Richard C. Armitage | 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. | 101 |
| Sergei Lavrov | We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows. | 101 |
| Simon Schama | In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics. | 101 |
| Tim Schafer | People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house. | 101 |
| Townsend Harris | The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. | 101 |
| Victoria Secunda | Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. | 101 |
| Aidan Gillen | There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies. | 101 |
| Anthony Holden | When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. | 101 |
| Anthony Zinni | In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. | 101 |
| Arthur Wellesley | The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. | 101 |
| Bill Shuster | America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. | 101 |
| Bonnie Bassler | When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant. | 101 |
| Conrad Black | A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. | 101 |
| David Friedman | The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. | 101 |
| Fred Woodworth | It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. | 101 |
| Gustav Stresemann | Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. | 101 |
| Harry Bridges | There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. | 101 |
| Herbert V. Prochnow | A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. | 101 |
| Jan Peter Balkenende | The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. | 101 |
| Jerry Spinelli | I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that. | 101 |
| Justin Cronin | 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. | 101 |
| Karl Marlantes | For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life. | 101 |
| L. Neil Smith | What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. | 101 |
| Leymah Gbowee | I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container. | 101 |
| Madalyn Murray O'Hair | 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. | 101 |
| Michael Hastings | 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. | 101 |
| Nam June Paik | Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. | 101 |
| Piers Morgan | There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics. | 101 |
| Taylor Hawkins | 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure. | 101 |
| Tom Paulin | It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you. | 101 |
| Asne Seierstad | As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war. | 101 |
| Barbara Olson | Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden. | 101 |
| Bob Hawke | My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad. | 101 |
| Bruce Cockburn | A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things. | 101 |
| Cardinal Richelieu | War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. | 101 |
| Clare Short | So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. | 101 |
| Chris Hedges | The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. | 101 |
| Cynthia McKinney | The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war. | 101 |
| Eisaku Sato | All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. | 101 |
| George Martin | What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. | 101 |
| Hiram Johnson | The first casualty when war comes is truth. | 101 |
| Hirohito | That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore. | 101 |
| Mario Puzo | 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. | 101 |
| R. W. Apple, Jr. | Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood. | 101 |
| Rob Walton | In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. | 101 |
| Sarah Vowell | The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. | 101 |
| Sebastian Faulks | There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable. | 101 |
| Sophie Kerr | If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars. | 101 |
| Tulsi Gabbard | As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war. | 101 |
| Barbara Lee | Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length. | 101 |
| Barry McCaffrey | If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. | 101 |
| Daryn Kagan | 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. | 101 |
| Dexter Gordon | In nuclear war all men are cremated equal. | 101 |
| Douglas Carter Beane | When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring. | 101 |
| David Morrell | I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy. | 101 |
| George Porter | 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. | 101 |
| Jimmy Doolittle | 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. | 101 |
| Laurie R. King | The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era. | 101 |
| Lynne Reid Banks | The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young. | 101 |
| Mordechai Vanunu | Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future. | 101 |
| Moustapha Akkad | If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. | 101 |
| Paul Conroy | Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory. | 101 |
| Ralph Peters | In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. | 101 |
| Tracy Spiridakos | I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a couple of hours. Or, if I'm feeling the hacking and slashing, I'll play a little 'God of War.' | 101 |
| Arthur Hertzberg | Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. | 101 |
| Arthur L. Herman | The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't. | 101 |
| Celine Buckens | I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I. | 101 |
| Charles Farrar Browne | I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. | 101 |
| Dawn Powell | The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). | 101 |
| Don Everly | Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home. | 101 |
| Donald Berwick | Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. | 101 |
| Joel Silver | There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going. | 101 |
| Michael Badnarik | On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. | 101 |
| Michael Cunningham | Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. | 101 |
| Robert Foster Bennett | I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it. | 101 |
| Samantha Smith | He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it. | 101 |
| Thurston Clarke | In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people. | 101 |
| Al McGuire | Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. | 101 |
| J. D. Hayworth | Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror. | 101 |
| Susan Eisenhower | After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked. | 101 |
| J. F. C. Fuller | It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. | 101 |
| James Cagney | You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. | 101 |
| John Yoo | In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. | 101 |
| Joe Haldeman | No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation. | 101 |
| John F. Kerry | I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. | 101 |
| Allan Massie | Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. | 101 |
| Anacreon | Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. | 101 |
| John Warner | Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. | 101 |
| John Abbott | War is the science of destruction. | 101 |
| John Holmes | Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. | 101 |
| Julie Salamon | My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born. | 101 |
| Bertrand Russell | War does not determine who is right - only who is left. | 102 |
| Douglas MacArthur | 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. | 102 |
| Leo Tolstoy | The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. | 102 |
| Richard M. Nixon | No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. | 102 |
| Ann Coulter | We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. | 102 |
| B. H. Liddell Hart | Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. | 102 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | 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. | 102 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. | 102 |
| Curtis LeMay | Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier. | 102 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent. | 102 |
| F. Murray Abraham | The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. | 102 |
| Francis Parker Yockey | Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. | 102 |
| Frank B. Kellogg | Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. | 102 |
| Floyd Abrams | I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. | 102 |
| George Armstrong Custer | You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end. | 102 |
| George McGovern | I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. | 102 |
| Howard Rheingold | Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. | 102 |
| Ida Tarbell | The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. | 102 |
| Joni Mitchell | We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. | 102 |
| King George V | I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. | 102 |
| Lester B. Pearson | As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. | 102 |
| Ludwig von Mises | Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. | 102 |
| Lynsey Addario | With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared. | 102 |
| Neville Chamberlain | However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. | 102 |
| Otto Dix | I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. | 102 |
| Paul Robeson | The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people. | 102 |
| Sebastian Junger | The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me. | 102 |
| Van Wyck Brooks | The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. | 102 |
| Victor Davis Hanson | War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm. | 102 |
| Warren Farrell | 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. | 102 |
| William Halsey | 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. | 102 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. | 102 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. | 102 |
| Daniel H. Wilson | I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. | 102 |
| Garrett Hedlund | See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. | 102 |
| Hans Kung | After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. | 102 |
| Herman Kahn | From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process. | 102 |
| Hjalmar Branting | As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? | 102 |
| Horatio Alger | Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. | 102 |
| J. G. Ballard | The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. | 102 |
| Kris Kristofferson | I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war. | 102 |
| Maya Lin | When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. | 102 |
| Norm Coleman | Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation. | 102 |
| Paddy Ashdown | It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations. | 102 |
| Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus | A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. | 102 |
| Roseanne Barr | My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. | 102 |
| Sander Levin | In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II. | 102 |
| Sharron Angle | You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change. | 102 |
| Toby Keith | Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy. | 102 |
| Troye Sivan | I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter. | 102 |
| A. J. P. Taylor | The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. | 102 |
| Aasif Mandvi | I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is. | 102 |
| Bill Shuster | Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag. | 102 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. | 102 |
| Jim Webb | I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort. | 102 |
| Karl Marlantes | When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting. | 102 |
| Michael Hastings | The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire. | 102 |
| Michael Ondaatje | That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. | 102 |
| Ryszard Kapuscinski | Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. | 102 |
| Walter F. Mondale | Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III. | 102 |
| Bob Hawke | Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism. | 102 |
| Clare Short | The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it? | 102 |
| Dennis Muren | I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. | 102 |
| Edmund Spenser | Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. | 102 |
| James Earl Jones | Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know. | 102 |
| John Olver | So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades. | 102 |
| Josh Gad | 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. | 102 |
| Leslie Cockburn | When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. | 102 |
| Radhanath Swami | I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify. | 102 |
| Rebecca Harding Davis | War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. | 102 |
| Richard Perle | If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. | 102 |
| Robert Walpole | I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. | 102 |
| Anthony Lewis | With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. | 102 |
| Asghar Farhadi | Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken. | 102 |
| Asif Ali Zardari | You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war. | 102 |
| Daniel Ellsberg | My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. | 102 |
| Douglass North | My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. | 102 |
| John Randolph | The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. | 102 |
| Julie Bowen | It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. | 102 |
| Mordecai Wyatt Johnson | Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. | 102 |
| Celine Buckens | I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. | 102 |
| John Cornyn | Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013. | 102 |
| Ralph Adams Cram | The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. | 102 |
| Stanley Baldwin | War would end if the dead could return. | 102 |
| Steve Wilkos | I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.' | 102 |
| Alicia Coppola | My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer. | 102 |
| John Doolittle | According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war. | 102 |
| Robert Wilson Lynd | The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. | 102 |
| Stanley Ho | Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau. | 102 |
| David M. Shoup | Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. | 102 |
| Jerry Stiller | Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. | 102 |
| Judy Biggert | No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. | 102 |
| Arrian | 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. | 102 |
| Jacques Chirac | One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone. | 102 |
| Juan Goytisolo | In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. | 102 |
| James Forrestal | It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. | 102 |
| James Woolsey | American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism. | 102 |
| John Foster Dulles | 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. | 102 |
| John A. Logan | 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. | 102 |
| Pope Francis | Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. | 103 |
| Thomas Hobbes | During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. | 103 |
| John Maynard Keynes | 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. | 103 |
| Albert Ellis | As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing. | 103 |
| Alfred Adler | Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. | 103 |
| Alice Walker | War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. | 103 |
| B. H. Liddell Hart | Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. | 103 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. | 103 |
| Elliott Abrams | The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country. | 103 |
| Eric Schmidt | 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. | 103 |
| Feisal Abdul Rauf | The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets. | 103 |
| Feist | I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war. | 103 |
| Gail Collins | The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency. | 103 |
| Hamid Karzai | But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it. | 103 |
| Hideki Tojo | Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. | 103 |
| Ian Anderson | We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II. | 103 |
| Imelda Staunton | Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. | 103 |
| Irwin Redlener | There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile. | 103 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | 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. | 103 |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. | 103 |
| Jonathan Haidt | 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. | 103 |
| Kate Adie | But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. | 103 |
| Larry Elder | The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. | 103 |
| Murray Rothbard | The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. | 103 |
| Neville Chamberlain | We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. | 103 |
| Noah Feldman | Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage. | 103 |
| Octavio Paz | Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism. | 103 |
| Oliver North | All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service. | 103 |
| Omar N. Bradley | Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. | 103 |
| Robert Anton Wilson | Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. | 103 |
| Ross Perot | War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. | 103 |
| Stanley Hauerwas | 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. | 103 |
| Thor Heyerdahl | Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. | 103 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. | 103 |
| Wendell Willkie | Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. | 103 |
| Werner Heisenberg | The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine. | 103 |
| William McKinley | War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. | 103 |
| Adrienne Rich | The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. | 103 |
| Andrew Young | What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. | 103 |
| Bernard Law Montgomery | If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly. | 103 |
| Cesar Romero | But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun. | 103 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust | When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most. | 103 |
| Eamon de Valera | Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. | 103 |
| Hans Blix | I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. | 103 |
| Jeannette Rankin | There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. | 103 |
| Jim Ramstad | The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. | 103 |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves. | 103 |
| Juan Williams | The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. | 103 |
| Lady Gregory | My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it. | 103 |
| Roger Bannister | I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit! | 103 |
| Simon McBurney | Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways. | 103 |
| Tim Curry | Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop. | 103 |
| William Kunstler | Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country. | 103 |
| William Petty | Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers. | 103 |
| Antony Beevor | It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices. | 103 |
| Bob Barr | Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term. | 103 |
| Bruce Jackson | Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that. | 103 |
| Bruce Sterling | War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it. | 103 |
| Chesty Puller | What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States. | 103 |
| Hal Holbrook | You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope. | 103 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war. | 103 |
| Jan Peter Balkenende | The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. | 103 |
| Jeff Rich | You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have. | 103 |
| Naomi Shihab Nye | My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister. | 103 |
| Alexis Arguello | Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over. | 103 |
| Charles Edward Montague | War hath no fury like a non-combatant. | 103 |
| Dennis C. Blair | I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world. | 103 |
| Greg Iles | My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. | 103 |
| P. D. James | I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. | 103 |
| Richie Havens | Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels. | 103 |
| Tim Hetherington | The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now. | 103 |
| Charles Studd | David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle. | 103 |
| James P. Hoffa | 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. | 103 |
| Marie Lu | We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns. | 103 |
| Akhmad Kadyrov | In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer. | 103 |
| Michael Badnarik | The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. | 103 |
| Aaron Huey | War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name. | 103 |
| Anthony Eden | We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict. | 103 |
| Joe Wilson | The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. | 103 |
| Blaise Pascal | 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? | 104 |
| George S. Patton | 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. | 104 |
| Maria Montessori | Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. | 104 |
| Al Franken | The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace. | 104 |
| Angela Merkel | Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. | 104 |
| Ban Ki-moon | I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights. | 104 |
| Barry Goldwater | I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. | 104 |
| Bayard Rustin | 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. | 104 |
| Benjamin Spock | What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? | 104 |
| Chris Kyle | War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks. | 104 |
| Condoleezza Rice | The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. | 104 |
| Ezra Pound | The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. | 104 |
| George McGovern | The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. | 104 |
| Hanna Rosin | The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. | 104 |
| Harold Pinter | I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. | 104 |
| Hideki Tojo | At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States. | 104 |
| Howard Zinn | One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. | 104 |
| John Milton | For what can war, but endless war, still breed? | 104 |
| Kevin O'Leary | Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them. | 104 |
| Kim Jong-un | Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war. | 104 |
| Larry Elder | Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system. | 104 |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | War means fighting, and fighting means killing. | 104 |
| Neal Boortz | If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. | 104 |
| Neville Chamberlain | In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. | 104 |
| Noah Webster | 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. | 104 |
| Omar N. Bradley | We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. | 104 |
| Oriana Fallaci | I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. | 104 |
| Pedro Calderon de la Barca | One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. | 104 |
| Pitbull | With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance. | 104 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | 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. | 104 |
| R. Lee Ermey | When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war. | 104 |
| Samantha Power | When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war. | 104 |
| Sheryl Crow | I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies. | 104 |
| Smedley Butler | 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. | 104 |
| Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. | 104 |
| Virginia Postrel | European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. | 104 |
| Waylon Jennings | We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. | 104 |
| William Westmoreland | 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. | 104 |
| Woody Harrelson | The war against terrorism is terrorism. | 104 |
| A. J. Liebling | To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. | 104 |
| Abbie Hoffman | Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. | 104 |
| Amitabh Bachchan | It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal. | 104 |
| Cindy Sheehan | We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. | 104 |
| David Lange | George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war. | 104 |
| Demosthenes | Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. | 104 |
| Donella Meadows | I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes. | 104 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust | As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed. | 104 |
| Eric Stoltz | It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. | 104 |
| George Grosz | I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. | 104 |
| Georges Clemenceau | I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. | 104 |
| Jamais Cascio | Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East. | 104 |
| Jefferson Davis | 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. | 104 |
| John McCain | Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. | 104 |
| Lalu Prasad Yadav | The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle. | 104 |
| Max von Sydow | 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. | 104 |
| Paul Engle | Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses. | 104 |
| Peter Abelard | I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war. | 104 |
| Robert Capa | I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture. | 104 |
| Sarah Parcak | 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. | 104 |
| Wilfred Burchett | In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. | 104 |
| A. J. P. Taylor | No war is inevitable until it breaks out. | 104 |
| Billy Bragg | I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. | 104 |
| Conrad Black | Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. | 104 |
| Giorgio Napolitano | This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. | 104 |
| Jim Webb | World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. | 104 |
| Muqtada al Sadr | No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. | 104 |
| Scott Anderson | The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.' | 104 |
| Timothy Murphy | Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty. | 104 |
| Clara Zetkin | The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. | 104 |
| Clive Barker | Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero. | 104 |
| Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 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. | 104 |
| Black Kettle | We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. | 104 |
| Joe Baca | Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago. | 104 |
| Jeremy Gilley | We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering. | 104 |
| John Doolittle | I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism. | 104 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. | 105 |
| George Orwell | War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. | 105 |
| George W. Bush | The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. | 105 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. | 105 |
| Herbert Hoover | 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. | 105 |
| Alain de Botton | The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. | 105 |
| Arlen Specter | My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model. | 105 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. | 105 |
| Chester W. Nimitz | It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. | 105 |
| Craig Venter | I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. | 105 |
| Dave Reichert | I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. | 105 |
| Foster Friess | We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks. | 105 |
| George Steiner | To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. | 105 |
| Geraldine Ferraro | You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. | 105 |
| Hideo Kojima | My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game. | 105 |
| Ismail Haniyeh | I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals. | 105 |
| Ludwig von Mises | Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. | 105 |
| Monica Crowley | The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war. | 105 |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | I ended the war a horse ahead. | 105 |
| Richard Engel | For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists. | 105 |
| Richard Louv | If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war. | 105 |
| Shel Silverstein | I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. | 105 |
| Sholom Aleichem | It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. | 105 |
| Smedley Butler | War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. | 105 |
| Suzanne Collins | I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into. | 105 |
| Tom Cruise | I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want. | 105 |
| Ty Cobb | I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. | 105 |
| Walter Dean Myers | I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings. | 105 |
| William Westmoreland | The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. | 105 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. | 105 |
| Jerry Saltz | All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. | 105 |
| Joan Baez | If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? | 105 |
| Karl Liebknecht | Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter. | 105 |
| Kim Il-sung | The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. | 105 |
| Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus | We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. | 105 |
| Theodore C. Sorensen | We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. | 105 |
| A. J. P. Taylor | 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. | 105 |
| Guy de Maupassant | Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. | 105 |
| John Ortberg | Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war. | 105 |
| Jim Webb | I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. | 105 |
| Jonathan Winters | Well, 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. | 105 |
| Patrick Chappatte | Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity. | 105 |
| Robert M. Gates | If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.' | 105 |
| Allan Savory | I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it. | 105 |
| George Martin | And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe. | 105 |
| John Major | The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. | 105 |
| Julian Bond | The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. | 105 |
| Douglas William Jerrold | There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. | 105 |
| James Thomson | Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. | 105 |
| Jeffrey Sachs | The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity. | 105 |
| Jacques Chirac | Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. | 105 |
| Sun Tzu | Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. | 106 |
| Clint Eastwood | The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. | 106 |
| Douglas MacArthur | In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. | 106 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. | 106 |
| George S. Patton | The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. | 106 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. | 106 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. | 106 |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. | 106 |
| Robert E. Lee | It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. | 106 |
| Benito Mussolini | War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. | 106 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. | 106 |
| Condoleezza Rice | It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. | 106 |
| David Mamet | 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. | 106 |
| Edward Abbey | The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. | 106 |
| Erwin Rommel | Sweat saves blood. | 106 |
| Foster Friess | The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters. | 106 |
| George C. Marshall | The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. | 106 |
| George McGovern | The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. | 106 |
| George R. R. Martin | If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies. | 106 |
| Herodotus | In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. | 106 |
| Ishmael Beah | 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. | 106 |
| John Mayer | You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor. | 106 |
| Kareena Kapoor Khan | Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do! | 106 |
| Leon Trotsky | There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. | 106 |
| Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 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. | 106 |
| Oliver North | The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind. | 106 |
| Rand Paul | The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. | 106 |
| Ron Paul | In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself. | 106 |
| Sallust | In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. | 106 |
| Sarah Palin | To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern. | 106 |
| Suzanne Collins | There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war. | 106 |
| Umberto Eco | A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. | 106 |
| Unknown | All warfare is based on deception. | 106 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. | 106 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust | 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. | 106 |
| John Henry Newman | There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done. | 106 |
| John McCain | War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. | 106 |
| Marsha Blackburn | Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. | 106 |
| Martin Jacques | Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam. | 106 |
| Martin Rees | To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match. | 106 |
| Maya Lin | I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. | 106 |
| Michael Ignatieff | The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias. | 106 |
| John Boyd Orr | Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. | 106 |
| Loren Eiseley | 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. | 106 |
| Michelle Malkin | 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. | 106 |
| Steve Buyer | The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. | 106 |
| Anatole Broyard | We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. | 106 |
| John Yoo | The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. | 106 |
| George Washington | To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. | 107 |
| John F. Kennedy | Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. | 107 |
| Douglas MacArthur | In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. | 107 |
| George W. Bush | The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. | 107 |
| Isaac Asimov | It is not only the living who are killed in war. | 107 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. | 107 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. | 107 |
| Andy Murray | When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents. | 107 |
| Steven Spielberg | Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. | 107 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. | 107 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. | 107 |
| Charles B. Rangel | Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. | 107 |
| Frank Miller | Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe. | 107 |
| George McGovern | I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. | 107 |
| Ishmael Beah | For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible. | 107 |
| Kate Adie | People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman. | 107 |
| Lee Kuan Yew | I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can. | 107 |
| Lester B. Pearson | It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. | 107 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. | 107 |
| Nostradamus | A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer. | 107 |
| Patrick Henry | The great object is that every man be armed. | 107 |
| Ringo Starr | I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. | 107 |
| Robert Gottlieb | What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. | 107 |
| Tacitus | A bad peace is even worse than war. | 107 |
| Yasser Arafat | Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. | 107 |
| Barbara Tuchman | War is the unfolding of miscalculations. | 107 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust | We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter. | 107 |
| Ernest Gaines | Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation. | 107 |
| Jason Mraz | Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. | 107 |
| Mark Helprin | I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation. | 107 |
| Meir Kahane | Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. | 107 |
| Rebecca West | Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. | 107 |
| Robert Capa | In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on. | 107 |
| J. William Fulbright | I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. | 107 |
| Jean Giraudoux | The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters. | 107 |
| Scott Anderson | I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya. | 107 |
| John Major | I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. | 107 |
| Ralph Steadman | Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war. | 107 |
| Stefan Zweig | Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. | 107 |
| Abba Eban | I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. | 107 |
| Jeff Ross | There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests. | 107 |
| John Foster Dulles | Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. | 107 |
| George Washington | 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. | 108 |
| John F. Kennedy | The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. | 108 |
| Douglas MacArthur | It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. | 108 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. | 108 |
| Dennis Prager | If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. | 108 |
| James A. Baldwin | Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. | 108 |
| Otto von Bismarck | People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. | 108 |
| Alan Dershowitz | It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. | 108 |
| Ban Ki-moon | When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. | 108 |
| Doris Lessing | I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. | 108 |
| Helen Thomas | But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer. | 108 |
| Howard Zinn | We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. | 108 |
| Lester B. Pearson | Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. | 108 |
| Ludwig von Mises | To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. | 108 |
| Marjane Satrapi | The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. | 108 |
| Muammar al-Gaddafi | We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. | 108 |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. | 108 |
| Ted Turner | War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. | 108 |
| Thucydides | Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. | 108 |
| Vanna Bonta | We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party. | 108 |
| Walter Dean Myers | I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens. | 108 |
| Winona LaDuke | We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy. | 108 |
| Christian Lous Lange | The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. | 108 |
| Janine di Giovanni | In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. | 108 |
| Marvin Gaye | War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate. | 108 |
| Joseph Heller | Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. | 108 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. | 109 |
| Julius Caesar | Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. | 109 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | 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. | 109 |
| Anthony Hopkins | I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short. | 109 |
| Arundhati Roy | 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. | 109 |
| Bernie Siegel | If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself. | 109 |
| George McGovern | When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. | 109 |
| Hassan Nasrallah | We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight. | 109 |
| Karl Kraus | How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. | 109 |
| Kevin O'Leary | Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. | 109 |
| Mark McKinnon | As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. | 109 |
| Omar N. Bradley | 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. | 109 |
| R. Lee Ermey | The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war. | 109 |
| Smedley Butler | 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. | 109 |
| Twyla Tharp | My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. | 109 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. | 109 |
| Werner Herzog | I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. | 109 |
| William Hazlitt | Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. | 109 |
| Dan Savage | Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. | 109 |
| Francois Fenelon | All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. | 109 |
| Julian Assange | The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. | 109 |
| Russell Baker | Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. | 109 |
| John Boyle O'Reilly | It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace. | 109 |
| Bernie Sanders | Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs. | 110 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. | 110 |
| Edward Snowden | Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting? | 110 |
| Ernest Hemingway | 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. | 110 |
| Pope John Paul II | 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. | 110 |
| Benito Mussolini | War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. | 110 |
| Charles de Montesquieu | An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. | 110 |
| John Adams | Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. | 110 |
| Julia Child | The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure. | 110 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. | 110 |
| Benjamin Spock | I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. | 110 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | War is the continuation of politics by other means. | 110 |
| Charles B. Rangel | As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. | 110 |
| Eldridge Cleaver | All the gods are dead except the god of war. | 110 |
| Elliott Abrams | At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready. | 110 |
| Feisal Abdul Rauf | 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. | 110 |
| George H. W. Bush | One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. | 110 |
| Harvey Fierstein | Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war. | 110 |
| Howard Zinn | When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. | 110 |
| James Monroe | Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. | 110 |
| Lester B. Pearson | The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. | 110 |
| Ludwig von Mises | War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. | 110 |
| Newt Gingrich | Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. | 110 |
| Rick Riordan | Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy. | 110 |
| Thomas Mann | War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. | 110 |
| Walter Kirn | The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war. | 110 |
| Adam McKay | Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. | 110 |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. | 110 |
| Martin Jacques | After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. | 110 |
| James Blunt | War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations. | 110 |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. | 110 |
| Voltaire | To hold a pen is to be at war. | 111 |
| Ernest Hemingway | Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. | 111 |
| George Santayana | Only the dead have seen the end of the war. | 111 |
| Virginia Woolf | We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. | 111 |
| Vladimir Putin | We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable. | 111 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. | 111 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. | 111 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. | 111 |
| Albert Pike | A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. | 111 |
| George McGovern | It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. | 111 |
| George Soros | Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. | 111 |
| H. G. Wells | If we don't end war, war will end us. | 111 |
| Jodie Foster | 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. | 111 |
| Lewis Thomas | 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. | 111 |
| Ludwig von Mises | If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. | 111 |
| Nassim Nicholas Taleb | People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work. | 111 |
| Oriana Fallaci | Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. | 111 |
| St. Jerome | 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. | 111 |
| Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. | 111 |
| Thom Yorke | My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is. | 111 |
| Winston Churchill | We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. | 112 |
| Virginia Woolf | 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? | 112 |
| Woody Allen | I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. | 112 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. | 112 |
| Bertolt Brecht | War is like love; it always finds a way. | 112 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. | 112 |
| Charles B. Rangel | To honor the legacy of veterans and the democratic principles they fought for, I am glad that I introduced the Korean War Veterans Recognition Act which was enacted in 2009. | 112 |
| James A. Garfield | Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. | 112 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | War remains the decisive human failure. | 112 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart. | 112 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. | 112 |
| Ludwig von Mises | A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. | 112 |
| Paul Valery | 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. | 112 |
| Ty Cobb | The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. | 112 |
| Bat for Lashes | 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring. | 112 |
| James Lovelock | This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. | 112 |
| Jon Meacham | The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. | 112 |
| Maya Lin | 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. | 112 |
| George Washington | My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. | 113 |
| H. L. Mencken | In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. | 113 |
| Leo Tolstoy | War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. | 113 |
| Warren Buffett | We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. | 113 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. | 113 |
| Julius Caesar | In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. | 113 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. | 113 |
| Albert Pike | War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. | 113 |
| Ann Coulter | When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes. | 113 |
| Charles B. Rangel | A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. | 113 |
| Christopher Lee | When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much. | 113 |
| Doris Lessing | The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. | 113 |
| Grace Slick | When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned. | 113 |
| Omar N. Bradley | The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. | 113 |
| Arthur Wellesley | Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. | 113 |
| James Buchan | Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. | 113 |
| Mark Hoppus | Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. | 113 |
| Christopher Hitchens | A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. | 114 |
| Ernest Hemingway | 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. | 114 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 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. | 114 |
| Robert E. Lee | The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. | 114 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. | 114 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. | 114 |
| Alfred Adler | War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. | 114 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | 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. | 114 |
| Elliott Abrams | In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter. | 114 |
| Golda Meir | We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. | 114 |
| Harry Browne | The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. | 114 |
| Isabel Allende | 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. | 114 |
| Kin Hubbard | Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. | 114 |
| Rick Warren | So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier. | 114 |
| Yuvraj Singh | The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer. | 114 |
| Gilbert Parker | War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. | 114 |
| M.I.A. | I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee. | 114 |
| Julie Burchill | There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. | 114 |
| George S. Patton | A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. | 115 |
| John Lennon | 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. | 115 |
| Salvador Dali | Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. | 115 |
| Herbert Hoover | It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. | 115 |
| Charles B. Rangel | I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division. | 115 |
| Clayton Christensen | I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful. | 115 |
| Elizabeth I | Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. | 115 |
| Rand Paul | The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era. | 115 |
| Wangari Maathai | I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. | 115 |
| Andre Maurois | Business is a combination of war and sport. | 115 |
| Julian Casablancas | The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone. | 115 |
| Plautus | Conquered, we conquer. | 115 |
| Douglas MacArthur | 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. | 116 |
| George Orwell | 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. | 116 |
| Isaac Asimov | John 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. | 116 |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. | 116 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. | 116 |
| Al Pacino | My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. | 116 |
| Cory Booker | When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. | 116 |
| Nancy Gibbs | The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. | 116 |
| Rita Rudner | A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax. | 116 |
| Ted Turner | The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. | 116 |
| Thomas Friedman | The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. | 116 |
| Wendell Berry | To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. | 116 |
| Mohsin Hamid | It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword. | 116 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. | 117 |
| Richard Branson | My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches in World War I. I truly believe that one of the E.U.'s greatest achievements is that it has kept its members out of conflict in Europe. | 117 |
| A. A. Milne | War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there. | 117 |
| Mao Zedong | Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. | 117 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. | 117 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. | 117 |
| E. B. White | The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. | 117 |
| Sun Tzu | Quickness is the essence of the war. | 118 |
| George S. Patton | Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. | 118 |
| Simon Sinek | During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. | 118 |
| Thomas A. Edison | There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. | 118 |
| Queen Elizabeth II | In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. | 118 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. | 118 |
| Bernard Baruch | Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. | 118 |
| Brad Pitt | I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. | 118 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. | 118 |
| Daisaku Ikeda | When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. | 118 |
| H. G. Wells | A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. | 118 |
| Havelock Ellis | There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. | 118 |
| Thom Yorke | Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. | 118 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure. | 118 |
| Sun Tzu | There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. | 119 |
| Harriet Tubman | 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war! | 119 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | All oppression creates a state of war. | 119 |
| Thomas Hobbes | Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. | 119 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | To secure peace is to prepare for war. | 119 |
| Lily Tomlin | I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war. | 119 |
| Ludwig von Mises | The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. | 119 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. | 119 |
| William Westmoreland | War is fear cloaked in courage. | 119 |
| Avril Lavigne | I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war. | 119 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. | 120 |
| Robert E. Lee | It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. | 120 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. | 120 |
| Dennis Prager | There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. | 120 |
| Gore Vidal | What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. | 120 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. | 120 |
| Dennis Miller | What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign. | 120 |
| Gary Johnson | I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs. | 120 |
| Lech Walesa | The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible. | 120 |
| Rand Paul | I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights. | 120 |
| Tony Blair | In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. | 120 |
| Michael Franti | I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad for Iraqi civilians. I'd also play for U.S. soldiers at night when they were off duty in the bars. Then I would talk to people, and I would film them and ask them about their life and the conflict. | 120 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. | 121 |
| Sun Tzu | Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. | 121 |
| George S. Patton | 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! | 121 |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war. | 121 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. | 121 |
| James Madison | War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. | 121 |
| Ambrose Bierce | War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. | 121 |
| Isabel Allende | In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. | 121 |
| Jesse Ventura | I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' | 121 |
| John Oliver | I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war. | 121 |
| Madeleine Albright | The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. | 121 |
| Marco Rubio | America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law. | 121 |
| Tom Hiddleston | I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?' | 121 |
| Wole Soyinka | A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. | 121 |
| Jean Giraudoux | Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. | 121 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 122 |
| Charles de Gaulle | France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. | 122 |
| John Updike | Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. | 122 |
| Umberto Eco | The United States needed a civil war to unite properly. | 122 |
| C. S. Lewis | 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. | 123 |
| Douglas MacArthur | 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. | 123 |
| Immanuel Kant | 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.' | 123 |
| Noam Chomsky | Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. | 123 |
| Stephen King | 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. | 123 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. | 123 |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. | 123 |
| Sun Tzu | Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. | 124 |
| Christopher Hitchens | I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. | 124 |
| Dennis Prager | There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. | 124 |
| Steven Spielberg | 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. | 124 |
| George Herbert | War makes thieves and peace hangs them. | 124 |
| Liam Neeson | 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. | 124 |
| Michio Kaku | We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness. | 124 |
| Ron Paul | 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. | 124 |
| Sam Harris | While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. | 124 |
| Thomas Hardy | My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. | 124 |
| Salvatore Quasimodo | War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. | 124 |
| Ernest Hemingway | I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. | 125 |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. | 125 |
| D. H. Lawrence | People always make war when they say they love peace. | 125 |
| Marshall McLuhan | 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. | 125 |
| Alanis Morissette | Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No. | 125 |
| Voltaire | It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. | 126 |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. | 126 |
| Thomas Merton | Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. | 126 |
| Euripides | Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. | 126 |
| Steven Spielberg | I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. | 126 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | War is hell. | 126 |
| Germaine Greer | The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. | 126 |
| Michael Moore | When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. | 126 |
| Hillary Clinton | No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. | 201 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | An army marches on its stomach. | 201 |
| Richard M. Nixon | The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. | 201 |
| Calvin Coolidge | No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. | 201 |
| Mao Zedong | War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. | 201 |
| Margaret Atwood | 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. | 201 |
| Thomas Hardy | 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. | 201 |
| Andrew Jackson | Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. | 202 |
| Bernie Sanders | Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. | 202 |
| Douglas MacArthur | In war there is no substitute for victory. | 202 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. | 202 |
| Napoleon Hill | War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. | 202 |
| John Steinbeck | Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. | 202 |
| Ron Paul | Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. | 202 |
| William S. Burroughs | Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. | 202 |
| John F. Kennedy | Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. | 203 |
| Aldous Huxley | A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. | 203 |
| Douglas MacArthur | 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. | 203 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. | 203 |
| Leo Tolstoy | 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. | 203 |
| Thomas Aquinas | In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. | 203 |
| Thomas Paine | He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. | 203 |
| Steven Spielberg | The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. | 203 |
| Anatole France | 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. | 203 |
| George Orwell | The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. | 204 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. | 204 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 205 |
| Harry S Truman | Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. | 205 |
| Noam Chomsky | A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster. | 205 |
| Will Rogers | Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. | 205 |
| George Washington | 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. | 206 |
| George Orwell | There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. | 206 |
| Isaac Asimov | 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. | 206 |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. | 206 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | 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. | 206 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. | 207 |
| Harry S Truman | 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. | 207 |
| Michelle Obama | See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. | 207 |
| Noam Chomsky | There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. | 207 |
| Thomas Paine | War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. | 207 |
| Marcus Samuelsson | I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. | 207 |
| Pope John Paul II | War is a defeat for humanity. | 208 |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery | War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. | 208 |
| Thomas S. Monson | As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood. | 208 |
| Sun Tzu | 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. | 209 |
| George Orwell | 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. | 209 |
| Nelson Mandela | 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. | 210 |
| George Orwell | War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. | 210 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. | 210 |
| Nikola Tesla | The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. | 210 |
| Noam Chomsky | Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. | 210 |
| Joan Rivers | She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. | 210 |
| Sun Tzu | The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. | 211 |
| George Orwell | War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. | 211 |
| Sun Tzu | Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. | 212 |
| Aldous Huxley | 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. | 212 |
| Clint Eastwood | 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?' | 212 |
| Nas | Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode. | 212 |
| Karl Lagerfeld | I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. | 212 |
| Leo Tolstoy | War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. | 213 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 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. | 214 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. | 214 |
| Malala Yousafzai | 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. | 214 |
| Vladimir Putin | The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. | 214 |
| Barack Obama | We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. | 215 |
| Winston Churchill | Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. | 216 |
| Nikola Tesla | The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists. | 216 |
| Thomas Aquinas | How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. | 216 |
| Sun Tzu | There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. | 217 |
| Albert Camus | We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. | 217 |
| Margaret Thatcher | If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. | 217 |
| Angelina Jolie | When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life. | 217 |
| Zig Ziglar | U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things. | 217 |
| Martin Luther | War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. | 218 |
| Vladimir Putin | I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now? | 218 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. | 219 |
| H. L. Mencken | Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. | 219 |
| Sun Tzu | 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. | 219 |
| Richard M. Nixon | As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. | 219 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. | 220 |
| Winston Churchill | When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. | 221 |
| Steven Pinker | The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls. | 221 |
| Donald Trump | The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place. | 222 |
| Angelina Jolie | War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly. | 222 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. | 223 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. | 223 |
| Aldous Huxley | What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. | 224 |
| Noam Chomsky | As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. | 224 |
| George Washington | War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. | 225 |
| Ernest Hemingway | Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. | 225 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 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. | 225 |
| Ernest Hemingway | Wars are caused by undefended wealth. | 226 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 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. | 301 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. | 301 |
| Aristotle | We make war that we may live in peace. | 302 |
| Walt Whitman | The real war will never get in the books. | 302 |
| Bertrand Russell | Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. | 303 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? | 303 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. | 304 |
| George Orwell | Serious sport is war minus the shooting. | 304 |
| Hillary Clinton | It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war. | 304 |
| Noam Chomsky | Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history. | 304 |
| Will Rogers | You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. | 304 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The sinews of war are infinite money. | 304 |
| Carl Sandburg | Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. | 304 |
| Barack Obama | We're not going to baby sit a civil war. | 305 |
| Thomas Jefferson | It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. | 305 |
| Malala Yousafzai | The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. | 305 |
| Richard Dawkins | Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion. | 305 |
| Barack Obama | I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. | 307 |
| Clint Eastwood | I was drafted during the Korean War. | 307 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. | 307 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | War is never a lasting solution for any problem. | 308 |
| Albert Einstein | You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. | 309 |
| Winston Churchill | In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. | 309 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | War settles nothing. | 309 |
| George Orwell | The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. | 310 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 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. | 311 |
| Ernest Hemingway | 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. | 311 |
| Albert Einstein | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. | 312 |
| John F. Kennedy | There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. | 313 |
| Winston Churchill | When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. | 313 |
| Plato | When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. | 314 |
| Noam Chomsky | It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. | 315 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken. | 316 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. | 317 |
| George Orwell | To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. | 318 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 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. | 319 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 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. | 319 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. | 321 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Laws are silent in time of war. | 321 |
| Sophocles | War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. | 321 |
| John F. Kennedy | War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. | 322 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. | 323 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. | 324 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 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? | 324 |
| Will Rogers | Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. | 324 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence. | 324 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. | 325 |
| John F. Kennedy | We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. | 326 |
| Will Rogers | The United States never lost a war or won a conference. | 402 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. | 403 |
| Noam Chomsky | We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. | 403 |
| Ronald Reagan | We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. | 405 |
| Winston Churchill | 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. | 405 |
| H. L. Mencken | 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. | 406 |
| Bill Gates | The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. | 406 |
| Ernest Hemingway | For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. | 407 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat. | 411 |
| Noam Chomsky | The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq. | 411 |
| John F. Kennedy | The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. | 412 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | An unjust peace is better than a just war. | 413 |
| Noam Chomsky | In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval. | 415 |
| Ernest Hemingway | In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. | 416 |
| John F. Kennedy | 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. | 418 |
| Albert Einstein | 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. | 419 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. | 426 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. | 505 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. | 507 |
| Winston Churchill | In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. | 507 |
| Albert Einstein | 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. | 508 |
| Winston Churchill | War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. | 509 |
| Thomas Jefferson | War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. | 520 |
| Albert Einstein | The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. | 522 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. | 525 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. | 526 |
| Winston Churchill | War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. | 606 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. | 607 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. | 612 |
| Winston Churchill | Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. | 619 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. | 621 |
| Albert Einstein | It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. | 706 |
| Benjamin Franklin | All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. | 805 |
| Benjamin Franklin | There was never a good war, or a bad peace. | 809 |
| Henry David Thoreau | What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. | 907 |
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