Wars Quotes
1277 quotes by 954 authors
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I…
— Taki Theodoracopulos
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Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the…
— Winston Churchill
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And it's only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we'll release our first standalone movie based on these…
— Bob Iger
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You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can…
— John Updike
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Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
— Max Lerner
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Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.
— Saul Bellow
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Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing…
— Colin Powell
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The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
— John Ruskin
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I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception,…
— Robert Breault
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Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
— George Will
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There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
— Louis L'Amour
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Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one…
— Andy Rooney
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can…
— E L Doctorow
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A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why…
— Robin Williams
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong…
— Ronald Reagan
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No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never…
— Margaret Mitchell
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I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes…
— Eugene V. Debs
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