Wars Quotes

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If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as… — Eckhart Tolle
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests… — Mark Helprin
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ. — Baron de Montesquieu
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by… — Isaac Asimov
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic… — Boris Pasternak
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and… — William Butler Yeats
Wars come and go; politics endure. — Jacqueline Carey
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
So long as there are men, there will be wars. — Albert Einstein
I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my… — James Howe
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation… — Sue Monk Kidd
My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the… — Richard Dawkins
The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than Â£18 billion. If we include the… — Joseph Stiglitz
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" -- — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness,… — T.H. White
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars.… — Tim Winton
I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S.… — James Patterson
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse. — Jasper Fforde

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