War Quotes · Page 369

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

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Jessica Park

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

“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

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

— Joseph Heller

“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

My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a…

— Edward Kennedy

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,…

— Laurence Sterne

To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil…

— Mairead Corrigan

“His angelic wings blackened when the dark fury assailed his mind. Summoning new strength from the unholy power that ravaged his soul,…

— T. A. Miles

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real…

— Anonymous

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned…

— Nicholas Metropolis

It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“14 July 1942—Jerusalem - ...A magnificent parcel, covered in tape and seals, arrived for me from India. Inside were two pairs of…

— Hermione Ranfurly

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

— Lennon Parham

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

— Smedley Butler

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

— Sergey Kirov

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

— Jim Cornette

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Jimmy Carter

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

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

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military…

— Chris Murphy

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

— Ernesto Cardenal

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

— Tacitus

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

— William Tecumseh Sherman