War Quotes · Page 113

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

— Benjamin Franklin

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

— Ramsey Clark

“Extra points for sneaking in the Star Wars reference,” I”

— Nat Kozinn

“In the battle for your life everyone is an enemy.”

— Jennifer T. Alli

“It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.”

— Paul Bamikole

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

— Immanuel Kant

“If the worst came, they would do their sad duty and fight the last battle above the dead bodies of their friends.”

— Konstantina P

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend…

— Sydney J. Harris

“I came home to find him propped up on a stack of pillows, sipping blood through a crazy straw (because it amused…

— Molly Harper

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that…

— Lou Reed

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

— Robert Reich

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying…

— Mo Rocca

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

— Hugh Prather

There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as…

— Marcus Garvey

When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have frankly drowning people in steel cages, wars…

— Donald Trump

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a…

— Barack Obama

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end,…

— David Eddings

“The traumatic experience of the Civil War and its aftermath in the 19th century was the incubator of Christian fundamentalism in 20th century…

— Andrew Himes

“Gentle Mother, font of mercy, save our sons from war, we pray, stay the swords and stay the arrows, let them know…

— George R.R. Martin

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or…

— Steven Pinker

“For example, take George McGovern [1972 Presidential candidate who campaigned on an anti-war platform]. George McGovern did not support the invasion of…

— Noam Chomsky

“Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

— May Sarton

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

— Joel Kinnaman

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

— Crystal Eastman

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.

— P. G. T. Beauregard

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

— Ovid

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

— Thomas Paine

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

— Bess Truman

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

— Anonymous

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

— Margaret Mead

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

— Anonymous

BB-8 [from Star Wars] his accent is so thick. You can't make out a damn word he says.

— Alan Tudyk

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

— Michel Ney

I don't want personal battles that take away from the team. I'm trying to win games.

— Patrick Beverley

In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.

— Ronald Dunn

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

— Townsend Harris