War Quotes · Page 484

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

— Shannon Briggs

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

— Seneca the Younger

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.

— Stephen Rodrick

“over the next thirty years. After World War II, the highest maximum rates reached 70–91 percent. Were”

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

— Golda Meir

“War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet…

— Philip Roth

“What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads. "Nope. We're…

— Kelley York

“Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance. It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided…

— Dalai Lama

“Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can…

— Delphine de Vigan

Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from…

— Joseph Campbell

We've got wars. Imagine having more money, you could buy more beer. Have you been to Dublin in its heyday like in…

— Gavin Friday

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could…

— Herman Kahn

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct…

— Anonymous

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the…

— Neil Sheehan

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

— Robert E. Lee

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

— Michael J. Fox

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or…

— Chiang Kai-shek

“All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank.”

— S.D. Smith

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to…

— Thomas Hardy

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S.…

— Will Hurd

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all…

— Alan Dershowitz

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

— Stephen Ambrose

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

— Rachel Carson

Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.

— Wes Fesler

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

— Ian Brown

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to…

— Pat Roberts

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a…

— Janet Flanner

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

— Manfred Rommel

ACT AS IF YOU ARE A FOOL TO STUDY THE STRATEGY OF PEOPLE. IF YOU LET OUT HONESTLY, THEY WILL FIND THE…

— Yssubramanyam

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

— Sun Tzu

Recruiting is tough because you have to stay in the battle. You've got so many guys that are going after a certain…

— Penny Hardaway

“War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The war brought ruin to Germany, but it couldn’t do any harm to these men. Lechner couldn’t suppress a smile. Fat will…

— Oliver Pötzsch