War Quotes · Page 148

“The battle for popularity is won, but the war for respect as a whole person is lost.”

— Mary Pipher

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

— Anthony Eden

Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

— Gustavo de Greiff

“Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

— Gerhard Schroder

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

— Bernhard Langer

“No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle”

— Gaiven Clairmont

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

— Horace

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

— Napoleon Hill

New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.

— Bill Maher

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Their true characters were shown not in the war they fought, but in the peace they made.”

— Salman Rushdie

“The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a…

— Margaret Atwood

“An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ' I can't forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn't an act…

— Paul Virilio

I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they…

— Clive Cussler

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no…

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

“Wars are supposed to be declared by governments. Parliaments and kings are supposed to decide whether hostilities shall begin. Never, since the…

— Anonymous

“I am a priest, but in this war I have been a soldier, and a soldier who has not surrendered. For I…

— Etta Shiber

“The war is going on, and I'm singing. But I can't bandage up the wounded like Tala. I can, of course. But…

— Mikhail Shishkin

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to…

— Josh Gad

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino'…

— Hugh Jackman

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry…

— John Bunyan

Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside…

— Sebastian Junger

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

— Leonid Andreyev

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

— William Shakespeare

“Sometimes you can win a war by leaving the battlefield before your army gets killed.”

— Wendy Walker

“The gods wanted war? They were about to get it.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

— Benito Mussolini

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

— Kate DiCamillo

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.”

— James Franck

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

— Arnold Bennett

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

— Joe Wilson

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

— John Major

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

— Ray Bradbury

My life is a constant battle between my love of food and not wanting to be fat.

— Anonymous

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

— Amanda Foreman

“But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.”

— George R.R. Martin

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

— Jimmy Carter

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

— Bertolt Brecht