War Quotes · Page 171

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

— Henry Ford

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

— Duke of Wellington

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

— Simon Bolivar

“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.”

— Richard Marcinko

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

— Sebastian Junger

It's always the good guys who win in war, or it will remain so in the history.

— Melchor Lim

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

— Satya Nadella

“You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me.”

— Patrick Ness

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people…

— Abraham Lincoln

During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the…

— Svetlana Alexievich

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

— Rod Lurie

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel,…

— David Jeremiah

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

— Deepak Chopra

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't know whether I survive the war or not, but I wanted you to survive. That's why I asked you to…

— Anonymous

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved…

— Philippa Perry

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no…

— Richard Aldington

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which…

— Winston Churchill

The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all…

— Shel Silverstein

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning…

— Patrick MacGill

I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was…

— Byron Katie

I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and…

— John Oliver

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

— O. Henry

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One”

— Rick Yancey

“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.”

— M.B. Dallocchio

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

— Anonymous

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

— Bertolt Brecht

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.”

— Kristin Hannah

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

— George Orwell

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

— Enoch Powell

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

— Robert Harris

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

— Eamon de Valera

“That's the attractive thing about war. Absolutely everything gets a little something”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

— Patrick Henry

“God often calls surrendered people to do battle on his behalf.”

— Rick Warren

“There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.”

— Bryant McGill