War Quotes · Page 115

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

— Mike Thompson

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.

— Tupac Shakur

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

— Barbara Castle

I follow the Cubs. Only when they play the Nationals do I have a conflict.

— Ivo Daalder

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

— Paul Keating

It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.

— Mehbooba Mufti

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

— Ferdinand Foch

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

— Salvador de Madariaga

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

— Abraham Lincoln

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

— Mao Zedong

“After all, in the midst of armed conflicts, facts are bound to be just as susceptible to injury as ships and men,…

— Amor Towles

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

— Tori Amos

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the…

— Gerald Scarfe

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor…

— Michel de Montaigne

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

— Martha MacCallum

History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner…

— Leon Trotsky

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds…

— George Santayana

It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t…

— Charles Eisenstein

“One difficulty we face today is the fact that the Republicrat faction that portrays itself as ‘conservative’ is anything but. While the…

— Joseph Befumo

“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and…

— Suzy Kassem

I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war…

— John Dufresne

In war and in peace, I implemented the policies of civilians elected and appointed over me, leaders like Secretary Panetta. And I…

— Lloyd Austin

Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people…

— Julius Streicher

“If war is the answer, it's a bloody stupid question.”

— Christopher Kneipp

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

— Thomas Carlyle

You know what they should call this war - Son of Bush vs. Son of a Bitch.

— Jay Leno

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

— Karen Horney

Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Ceasefire only postpones war, what’s needed is demilitarization.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

— Malcolm Bradbury

“The point is not to avoid the war, it is to win it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Love is what I'm arming my sons with to go out in an angry and hurting world.”

— Diana Oestreich

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

— Haruki Murakami

“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”

— Lauren Oliver

Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

They got money for wars but they cant feed the poor.

— Anonymous

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

— Tracy Kidder

“A character’s façade, then, is an outer manifestation of an inner conflict.”

— John Yorke