War Quotes · Page 487

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

— Irena Sendler

You're not going to go to battle with someone you don't know. It doesn't matter what walk of life it is, whether…

— Barry Trotz

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

— Hideo Kojima

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to…

— Alan Coren

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

— Jeffrey Archer

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would…

— Harry Browne

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

— Reinhold Messner

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December…

— Jackie Collins

“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find…

— C.S. Lewis

“She smiles. “You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle”—I gasp but her smile…

— Philippa Gregory

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there,…

— Larry Kramer

The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the…

— Richard Engel

“Now, here's the real beauty of this contorting contradiction. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers get to be failures. The ethos of…

— Susan J. Douglas

I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted…

— Eugene B. Sledge

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

— Anonymous

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

— Barack Obama

“It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war,…

— Sydney J. Harris

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

— Christopher Dodd

“This war that has taken so many sons has spared mine. This age that has burned so many daughters has not burned…

— Tahmima Anam

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

— Peter R. Mansoor

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

— Amity Shlaes

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

— Catherine Camus

“I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.”

— Philippa Gregory

“The United States bombed Indochina with three times the tonnage of bombs used in all of World War II; Cambodia alone was…

— Vaddey Ratner

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to…

— Agatha Christie

Life is like a war, you may start off on the advance, and towards the middle loose some ground, but what really…

— Anonymous

“I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn’t just for the hungry, but for the ones…

— Angela Richardson

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a…

— Robert Anderson

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

— Reginald Farrer

“Of course I deprecate war,” he wrote, “but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.”

— Candice Millard

“...the art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..”

— John Geddes

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition…

— William Glasser

“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without…

— Sun Tzu

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If religions have produced conflict between people, it is not because their teachings are “wrong” but because they may be incomplete.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time…

— Anne McCaffrey