War Quotes · Page 794

Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,…

— M. M. Mangasarian

A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with…

— David Ben-Gurion

“It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“One moment, the remnant was doing battle with three separate entities: Cary, Faleena, and Saanvi. The next moment, there was just one.…

— M.D. Cooper

If the American people had known the truth - that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the…

— Tom Fitton

Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate…

— Ellen Key

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has…

— Pope Francis

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is…

— Winston Churchill

“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a…

— Hilary Mantel

“Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The destruction of Dresden was an overkill. It was done in February, 1945, when it was clear that Germany would lose the…

— Josip Novakovich

I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such…

— Gabor Peter

The mind can be the harshest battleground. It can be the place where the greatest conflicts are carried out. Its where half…

— Melchor Lim

“Westin celebrated the New Year by shooting off some hand flares. Orders were “no fireworks,” but you couldn’t expect several hundred thousand…

— Mark Bowden

“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could…

— Mao Zedong

The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial…

— Otto von Bismarck

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting…

— H. L. Mencken

“This might just be two people in a queue, but this has become a mighty battle of wills - a war between…

— Danny Wallace

Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted…

— Pete Olson

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community…

— Charles Kennedy

For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA).…

— Paul Virilio

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become…

— Andrew Cuomo

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and…

— Gary Frank

“There’s nothing funny about war. Well, aside from this joke Orafoura told me: What did WWI say to WWII? I wish I…

— Jarod Kintz

In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism…

— Douglas MacArthur

The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible,…

— Carl McCoy

I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or…

— Howard Warren Buffett

“She resolved conflicts by either agreeing or quietly going about her business and doing things her way. Conflict was too hard to…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that…

— Rick Rowley

“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such…

— Christine de Pizan

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but…

— Bob Hawke

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand…

— Jeff Cooper

“As daughter of our ruler I grew up in the crossfire of an ongoing war... All I’d ever wanted to be was…

— Alexandra May

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of…

— Frank Carlucci

Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early…

— Lloyd deMause