Battlefields Quotes

45 quotes by 38 authors

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable… — Henry Ward Beecher
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. — Leo Tolstoy
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan
Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier. — Hassan al-Banna
I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals… — Walt Whitman
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that… — Randy Neugebauer
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. — Henry Waxman
Companies arenâ€™t families. Theyâ€™re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year,… — Charles Duhigg
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of… — Margaret Thatcher
Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football… — Nile Kinnick
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. — Alfred M. Gray
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,… — Leo Tolstoy
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. — Ambrose Bierce
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. — Victor Hugo
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea â€¦ are writing a brilliant record of achievement in… — Douglas MacArthur
Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire. — Michael Leunig
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on… — William Manchester
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields,… — Chuck Hagel
There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of… — Robert Toombs

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