Peacetime Quotes

27 quotes by 27 authors

We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must… — Glen E. Morrell
Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need… — Mary Ruwart
Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny… — D. James Kennedy
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one… — Vasily Grossman
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to… — Ludwig von Mises
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners… — P.J. O'Rourke
We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us,… — Larry Kramer
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the… — Jacqueline Winspear
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the… — Alasdair Gray
It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it. — Shelby Steele
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of… — Richard Wurmbrand
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. — Jose Bergamin
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. — George Wald
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. — Paul Yingling
War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises. — Erwin Rommel
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. — Edmund H. North
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. — Susan Faludi
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for… — James F. Byrnes
Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. — Harry S. Truman

Who Wrote These Peacetime Quotes

27 authors contributed a total of 27 Peacetime Quotes, led by these top contributors: