War Quote by Michael B. Oren Download Open image ““an “ominous” figure suggestive of “pestilence and war.”” — Michael B. Oren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“There was something decidedly unpleasant about him, sinister, at the same time absurd, that combination of the ludicrous and alarming soon to be widely… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims– and as far as possible one must refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“That which represents Chaos is menace, is the aggressive side. While Order is the side being threatened, in need of protection. In need of… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And… — Katharine Mary Briggs Copy Share Image
“detested the missionaries who made people “permanently miserable by telling them…how blissful a place heaven is, and [how] nearly impossible it is to get… — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
“Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively… — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
“such banditti who might for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the Earth.” — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
“unfeeling tyrants” who cared no more for their subjects’ lives “than…so many caterpillars upon an apple tree.” — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
“And while generally loyal to the United States, ibn Saud displayed no reservations about negotiating with Britain and France in order to extract higher… — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
“Those who tried to escape received the customary punishment, as Nicholson harrowingly described: After they had stripped the sufferer naked, they inserted the iron… — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and various hangers-on all made an appearance. Though our house was in the depths of the mountains, they somehow all managed to get there. They were no fools. They knew we had delicious food and drink to… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, after the war is over, that will be the only way they can turn. Everything else will have been tried, everything else will have failed. And… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle. Anyway, both of these impulses can destroy order, which comes out of both drives, and which is another human need I haven't yet fit into my scheme. So both have to be controlled. But in fact,… — Marilyn French Copy Share
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