Wars Quotes

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Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt… — Kurt Vonnegut
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything… — Douglas Adams
The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. — Jeffrey Eugenides
But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to… — John Irving
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in… — Francois Fenelon
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so… — Jane Austen
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to… — Arundhati Roy
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought… — William Saroyan
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the… — Richard Bach
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart… — Henry James
In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to… — George Washington
Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. — Thomas Jefferson
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast… — Douglas Coupland
A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;… — William James
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. — Iain Banks

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