War Quotes · Page 405

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning…

— Dana Gould

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

— Henry Giroux

Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.

— Bettany Hughes

We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have…

— Foster Friess

“Part III: Waken a Statue "You've witnessed horrific wars, but the greatest to be seen lies within yourself.”

— J.R. Vaineo

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

— Sun Tzu

If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

— Gary Gulman

“The path taken by the authorities in their so-called Rauschgiftbekämpfung, or “war on drugs,” lay less in an intensification of the opium…

— Norman Ohler

The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step…

— Peace Pilgrim

“They will not face the fact that the military professionals, while some have ideas about society in general that are distorted and…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in…

— Giulio Douhet

“With a rough shove, he pushed his palm down the front of his combats and the instant contact was made, an orgasm…

— J.R. Ward

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like…

— Paul Haggis

Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in…

— Linda Colley

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the…

— William Butler Yeats

“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep…

— Alice Hoffman

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading…

— Antony Beevor

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

— Daniel Berrigan

It's coming, a battle between Starclan and The Dark Forest and every warrior will be called upon to fight.

— Erin Hunter

“Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to…

— Michael Ondaatje

“He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.”

— Walter Kirn

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A Guy Just Wants peace of mind sometimes. He doesn't want to go to war with the one he loves. He want…

— Enhance Dreams

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I’ve learned that effort spent on unwinnable battles is wasted effort. It’s best to simply move on to something worth conquering.”

— John Herrick

“Happiness is just a spicing to life, nothing essential, struggle and war are what has kept the world going around in perfect…

— Hala Alzaghal

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've…

— Austin Butler

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you…

— Abraham Pais

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Be careful, Princess. When waging a war of the heart, you must only fight if you are absolutely sure you can win.”

— Sherry D. Ficklin

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

— Joost Meerloo

I had gotten the role of Fandral in Thor, but scheduling conflicts (with Chuck) prevented that from going forward.

— Zachary Levi

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

— Brandon Sanderson

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

— Dionne Warwick

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We're at war with society, racism & terrorism.. but most of all? We're at war with ourselves.

— Kanye West

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were…

— Billy Bragg