War Quotes · Page 218

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

— Ronald Steel

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

“If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.”

— Lin Manuel-Miranda

Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

— Pat Buchanan

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

— Salman Rushdie

“War will end when people stop showing up for it.”

— George Carlin

The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.

— Alexander Suvorov

“There's times a woman's just got to fight, even if she knows it's a losing battle.”

— Novala Takemoto

Then I'ma rock ya body. Turn you over. Love is war, I'm your soldier. Touchin' you like it's our first time.

— J Holiday

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something…

— Wendell Berry

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were…

— Manfred von Richthofen

Horror has always reflected societal anxiety. Like 'Godzilla' coming out of the aftermath of nuclear war. It tells us what we as…

— Nia DaCosta

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

— Daisaku Ikeda

I was against the war in Iraq.The record shows that I'm right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern.

— Donald Trump

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In…

— Thomas Merton

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums

— Arthur Koestler

“But your dreams and your integrity must never come in conflict. Money will come and go, but your integrity is forever. It…

— Erik Hamre

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all…

— David L. Katz

“And thus, the men won the Battle of the Sexes in Milesian times, so that from the Golden Age of Athens until…

— Nicholas Chong

My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the…

— L. Neil Smith

The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems.…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until…

— Guillermo del Toro

“When you have a strong conservative streak in your society,” Zeyk would say, “which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think…

— Cenk Uygur

“Faith is constantly at war with fear. When faith is the winner, there's peace.”

— Toba Beta

“The greater the conflict, the less visible the exposition.”

— John Yorke

There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

— Mehdi Hasan

Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.

— Cassandra Clare

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

— Chester W. Nimitz

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

— Anonymous

If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I'm going to lose this battle.

— Tabitha Suzuma

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

— Marilyn Manson

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.

— Newton Lee

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

— Leo Tolstoy

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'

— Heather Brooke

The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.

— Mark Esper

“I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it.”

— John Steinbeck

“The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.”

— Winston S. Churchill

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

— George H. W. Bush