Every War Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness,…
— John R. Rice
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
— Victor Hugo
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
— George Orwell
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
— Will Rogers
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate…
— Paul Fussell
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Every war has turning points and every person too.
— Meg Rosoff
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Every war is different. Every war is the same.
— Anthony Swofford
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It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million…
— G. H. Hardy
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Every country in every war fights for freedom.
— Henry Williamson
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Every war has its demons.
— Richard Engel
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Every war has revolutionary justice.
— Richard Engel
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Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face…
— John Ortberg
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My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.
— Shane Smith
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I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.
— Mark Boal
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Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Who Wrote These Every War Quotes
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