War Quotes · Page 126

When you figure out that you're fighting some other man's war, walk away

— Anonymous

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.

— Samora Machel

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

— Chief Joseph

“All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.”

— Jane Porter

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

— Bertolt Brecht

“Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.”

— Toba Beta

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

— Eric Hoffer

“There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy”

— Deborah Smith

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

— Richard Cobden

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and…

— Terence Stamp

Now there's gravel in our voices Glasses shattered from the fight In this tug of war you always win Even when I'm…

— Anonymous

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House…

— Neil Kinnock

“The battle between your current state and your desired state cannot be won without a powerful weapon called CHOICE. Your choice determines…

— TemitOpe Ibrahim

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had…

— Pal Benko

“Modern corporate governments have silently declared war on their mass populations biology.”

— Steven Magee

“War reveals people's deeper nature.' 'I don't like that idea. It would suggest that we need to be put to the test.…

— Amélie Nothomb

What I'm starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that…

— Rachel Maddow

The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its…

— Kofi Annan

The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security…

— Dilma Rousseff

“BILLY: Did you ever watch Star Trek? MACHIAVELLI: Do I look like I watch Star Trek? BILLY: It's hard to tell who's…

— Michael Scott

This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with…

— Vijay Prashad

With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still…

— Steven Erikson

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

— Hilary Mantel

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

— Saint Augustine

“So long as there are two men left on earth there will be war. [169]”

— Sol T. Plaatje

“Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.”

— David Levithan

“Come my friend, for tonight we go to war...”

— José N. Harris

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

— Ferdinand Foch

“It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”

— Ali Shaw

“Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.”

— Marcus Aurelius

The wars are in my mind and the wounds are in my body

— Ana

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

— J. William Fulbright

“If I’m going to die, I’d rather die in battle than be hunted down like a rat.”

— Julie Kagawa

The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

— Tony Blankley

The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.

— JRR Tolkien

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”

— Virgil