War Quotes · Page 299

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

— Joan Wallach Scott

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more…

— Peter Maurer

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam…

— David Frum

I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way.…

— Jack Kirby

“It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

— Barack Obama

There's no WAR for being a good teammate, so apparently that means older guys can't get paid.

— Gerrit Cole

“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. —WILLIAM TECUMSEH…

— Harold G. Moore

“It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to…

— Arundhati Roy

We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and…

— Curtis LeMay

“Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few…

— Garry Kilworth

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as…

— Anne Frank

This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect…

— Ricardo Alarcon

Portadown was the most marginalized of all the Nationalist communities in the North. Suddenly we were living in a town where, if…

— Adrian Dunbar

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over…

— Bertolt Brecht

“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at…

— Noam Chomsky

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil…

— Patrick Henry

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

— John Burroughs

Conflict is as addictive as, Alcohol, Cigarettes, Drugs, I'm sorry to report that cooperation is not!

— Anonymous

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or…

— Samuel Adams

I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

— Fionn Whitehead

A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

“How funny.” I say flatly. “and I was hoping for a battle of wits but you appear to be unarmed.” His laugh…

— K. Larsen

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

— William Ellery Channing

I don't like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy.

— Leigh Bardugo

Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.

— Ashley Purdy

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

— Henry Fielding

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for…

— Origen

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and…

— Patrice Motsepe

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference”

— Ash

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

— Henry Ford

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The…

— Gulzar

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second…

— Bill Nye

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in…

— Janet Burroway

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

— Julia Bacha

“Ideology follows the money." "Governments don't protect people, people protect governments." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the…

— Lawrence Samuels

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

— Albert Einstein

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

— Seth