War Quotes · Page 330

CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded.

— Jay Leno

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

— Kevin Parker

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket…

— Ronald Reagan

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...

— Barbara Tuchman

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

— Adrian Rogers

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

— Janine di Giovanni

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so…

— Dan Aykroyd

The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he…

— David Denby

There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death,…

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

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

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can…

— Pearl S. Buck

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 focus on playing football, and there are many battles you have to think about and which must be won.

— Christian Eriksen

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of…

— Bell Hooks

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

— Janet Tashjian

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

— Patrick Lencioni

When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II.…

— Geoffrey West

Everyday is a constant battle dealing with past mistakes. Today I will remind myself that a wound cannot heal until you stop…

— Julie Hernandez

When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

— Wole Soyinka

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

— Anonymous

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

— Ramsay MacDonald

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

— Phil Donahue

You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the…

— Hanan Ashrawi

“Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant…

— R.A. Nelson

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all…

— John McCain

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to…

— Lech Walesa

“The use of the shemagh and keffiyeh had been adopted by US troops since the war in Iraq”

— Matthew Mather

Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed…

— Ed Pastor

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the…

— George McGovern

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

— Edward Gibbon

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we…

— Neal Shusterman

Every individual is fighting his own war for survival against the system.And system is destroying the sanctity of an individual

— Madhu Vajpayee

The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

— Valerie Plame