War Quotes · Page 260

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

— Justin Raimondo

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

— Warren G. Bennis

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

— Donald Rumsfeld

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

— Thomas Hardy

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

— Sun Tzu

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

— Horace

“the kandra people were at war again, and the only ones”

— Brandon Sanderson

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the…

— Malcolm X

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral,…

— Michael Haneke

The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able…

— Juan Manuel Santos

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not…

— Thucydides

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished…

— Abba Eban

“Don’t blind yourself, demon. He fought for the same cause, the same war. It was just a different battle.” - Jenna Jenson”

— J.L. Sheppard

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe, uh, diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil…

— Anchorman

“Mike Shea became a medic during the war and was now married, working for Pfizer. To this day he can’t look at…

— Alice McDermott

I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they…

— Hillary Clinton

Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show…

— William J. Clinton

“Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief…

— Max Planck

“had been deeply struck… by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of…

— Edward Frenkel

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in…

— Carroll Quigley

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm…

— Edward Gibbon

What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world?…

— Thomas Otway

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“In the battle of love , you only win if she let's you.”

— Carlson D'souza

Dont judge people, you have no idea what kind of battle they are fighting...

— Anonymous

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

— Sting

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

— Sun Tzu

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

— Anonymous

“If he can't reach you he can't hit you If he can't hit you he can't hurt you”

— Arun D. Ellis

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

— George H. W. Bush

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

“God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives.”

— Ben Fountain

“I am Cloud “Combat” McCloud. Fear my thunder! Love my chicken tenders.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Good to know in times of war you can’t bluff for shit.”

— Samantha Young

It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.

— Frederick The Great

When the old men fight, the young people die.

— Anne Fortier

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

— John Lydon