War Quotes · Page 159

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

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

— Salvador de Madariaga

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

— Christopher Kneipp

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

— Ferdinand Foch

“life be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

— Nikki Sex

“If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees,then you're fighting the wrong battle.”

— Charles Martin

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

— Anonymous

“He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war.…

— James McBride

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making…

— Wilfred Owen

“There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means "to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it.”

— Michel Templet

When you go out there and go to war with your brothers. There is nothing better than that.

— Dennis Schroder

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

— Alex Berenson

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

— Alberto Moravia

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

— David Roberts

“It is a sad commentary on our civilization, however, that war and suffering rather than peacetime living can mobilize human readiness to…

— Erich Fromm

Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell…

— Groucho Marx

First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its…

— Malcolm Cowley

"The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you…

— Felicity Jones

If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines…

— William Graham Sumner

Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of…

— Kresley Cole

The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one…

— John Green

For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For…

— Carol Gilligan

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

— Gary Bauer

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

— Albert Einstein

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

— Arnold Palmer

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

— James A. Michener

I didn't grow up with 'Star Wars,' but I knew it was a big franchise from America.

— Iko Uwais

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

— Anonymous

It is indeed a tough job to make a war film.

— Nikitin Dheer

“If sheer strength is your only contribution to war, you will ultimately be defeated.”

— Justin Weisner Starks

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

— Joan Baez

“if she hadn’t been at peace, then at least she wasn’t at war with herself.”

— Sherry Thomas

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.

— Albert Einstein

“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”

— Ben Franklin

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

— George Pickett

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

— David Eagleman

“Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?”

— Arundhati Roy

I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

— George W. Bush