War Quotes · Page 305

“I won the battles, Justin. And I won the war. And now there is no more fighting. Now there is peace. You…

— Jessica Park

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people…

— Madeleine Albright

“any time I spent with Ruth should be regarded as precious. War, after all, was everywhere.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest…

— Hanoi Hannah

India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

— Imran Khan

“Until the battle with the Revanche he hadn’t thought he would ever tire of gazing at the horizon. Only since then had…

— Suzanne Enoch

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from…

— Joseph Heller

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

— Lennon Parham

Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being…

— Nabeshima Naoshige

The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out…

— Henry Hamilton Beamish

After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical…

— Jon Stewart

“But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were…

— Jane Austen

It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that…

— David Ignatius

In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a…

— Robert E. Howard

Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the…

— William J. Brennan

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set…

— Anonymous

“We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.”

— K. Howard Joslin

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.”

— Lois Lowry

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international…

— Alfred Hermann Fried

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

— Ronald A. Heifetz

“Everybody thinks you should be happy just because you're young. They don't see the wars that we fight every single day. And…

— The Freedom Writers

“It can. If you’re willing to do the work.” “What work?” “Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.”

— Matthew Quick

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

— Smedley Butler

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into…

— Pearl Mackie

“Success in such a war as this comes only through men sewn to a single purpose, funnelled to a single spear thrust…

— Madeline Miller

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

— Richard Engel

When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.

— Ruben Papian

“There's an end to all truth now that the war's over. We've seen too much. The conjurers and cardsharpers have given away…

— Jerzy Andrzejewski

The thing is, wrestling is the oldest form of combat known. The cavemen wrestled. And everyone in the American public can understand…

— Jim Cornette

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

— Sergey Kirov

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under…

— Jimmy Carter

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

— H. L. Mencken

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

— Tacitus

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link…

— Ernesto Cardenal

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

— Ernest Hemingway