War Quotes · Page 37

I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was…

— Ziad Doueiri

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

— John Milton

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing…

— Jay Leno

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence…

— Oscar Arias

It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though…

— Bruce Cockburn

The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was…

— Peter Maurer

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The Mexican people, you cannot explain this wealth, this history, this joy, the capacity to celebrate amid these tragedies that you have…

— Pope Francis

The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from…

— Le Ly Hayslip

“Well, you’d better hope I am because the world was built by sociopaths, men willing to send a million innocent boys into…

— David Wong

All the battles I have had with Felix since the first time back in 2018 have had drama.

— Andrey Rublev

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young…

— Graham Nash

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“Chaotic Of Echoes The Lands Darkest Hours Of Lions Architect the Garlots of War The Precognitions”

— Philippa Ballantine

We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the…

— Wole Soyinka

“I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage”

— Henry Rollins

“War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.”

— Zlata Filipović

I'd feel more of the pressures of daily life, obsessed about finding a job or love. Maybe I've taken these things for…

— Nomi Ruiz

Accursed be he that first invented war.

— Christopher Marlowe

Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of…

— Richard Cobden

A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

[Donald Trump] has moved to admit that there is a conflict of interest now and he needs to do something.

— Norman L. Eisen

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will…

— Sheri S. Tepper

The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted…

— Hjalmar Schacht

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.

— Soren Kierkegaard