Wars Quotes · Page 19

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

— Tariq Ali

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

— Linda Colley

“The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren’t involved. Only the skin color of the dead…

— Jonathan Carroll

“Always remember that, in a modern environment, wars last longer and kill more people than is typically planned.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“She had impeccable beauty — the sort of woman who men started wars over. Wars where thousands died.”

— Armada West

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do think if we had a draft again, the United States would embark on fewer wars.

— John Densmore

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary…

— Anna Popplewell

How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore…

— Aberjhani

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you…

— Rupert Everett

I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they…

— Mara Wilson

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl…

— William Safire

Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the '80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. '90s…

— Diamond Dallas Page

“I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty,…

— A young girl in a UN meeting

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

— Alison Lurie

“Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.”

— Victoria Aveyard

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered…

— Alan Sillitoe

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our…

— Steve Almond

“Wars exist because the divine essence of each human being are not recognzed.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

I do like sci-fi, absolutely. I've watched everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to 'Terminator' - the list goes on and…

— Mekhi Phifer

Its going to be a big wars tomorrow.. Wish me luck... I going to take her from you ...

— Anonymous

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

— Neal Shusterman

The first run or match with The Shield always stands out to me - our matches, our wars.

— Luke Harper

Oh, my God, I've mixed up my 'Star Wars' movies. Oh, no, the Internet is gonna come for me.

— Brendan Hunt

“You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.”

— Jarod Kintz

Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from…

— David Means

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession,…

— Rahm Emanuel

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but…

— George Henry Boker

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more…

— Tom Clancy

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Unless all other means have been exhausted, the battle is nothing more than a bar fight taking place in a room that…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

— Larry Brilliant

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

— Ronald Reagan

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“My relationships failed because i never showed up to the wars i didn't feel like fighting.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

— Woodrow Wilson