War Quotes · Page 372

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

— Ernest Hemingway

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military…

— Chris Murphy

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link…

— Ernesto Cardenal

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

— Tacitus

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

— Sergey Kirov

The thing is, wrestling is the oldest form of combat known. The cavemen wrestled. And everyone in the American public can understand…

— Jim Cornette

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

— H. L. Mencken

“Frederick Douglass, former slave, extraordinary speaker and writer, wrote in his Rochester newspaper the North Star, January 21, 1848, of “the present…

— Howard Zinn

Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six…

— Barack Obama

“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives.…

— G.J. Meyer

“You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for…

— Albert Camus

“It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of legislative authority," the Federalist tell us. And…

— Gene Healy

The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under…

— Michael Tellinger

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far…

— David Baker

Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is…

— Wilford Woodruff

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under…

— Jimmy Carter

When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.

— Ruben Papian

“There's an end to all truth now that the war's over. We've seen too much. The conjurers and cardsharpers have given away…

— Jerzy Andrzejewski

India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

— Imran Khan

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest…

— Hanoi Hannah

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people…

— Madeleine Albright

“I won the battles, Justin. And I won the war. And now there is no more fighting. Now there is peace. You…

— Jessica Park

“any time I spent with Ruth should be regarded as precious. War, after all, was everywhere.”

— Nicholas Sparks

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

— Frederick Douglass

“Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Unfortunately, the inhumanity of health injustice still persists. The war we came to Chicago to fight so many years ago rages on.…

— Anonymous

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.”

— Lois Lowry

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.”

— K. Howard Joslin

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from…

— Joseph Heller

“Until the battle with the Revanche he hadn’t thought he would ever tire of gazing at the horizon. Only since then had…

— Suzanne Enoch

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

— Lennon Parham

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

— Christine Feehan

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

— John T. Flynn

“She told herself Super Girl was still Super Girl even without the cape, and then the battle began.”

— Tracy Ewens

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

— Norman Finkelstein