Top 100 At War Quotes
#1. Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.
Winston Churchill
#2. There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
Charles Bukowski
#3. The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.
Michael Pollan
#4. A writer's brush is a warrior's bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The calligrapher is an archer, or a general on a battlefield. Someone wrote that long ago. She feels that way this morning. She is at war.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#5. The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.
Byron Katie
#6. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell
#7. We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.
Betty Dodson
#8. We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.
Peter T. King
#9. Isn't it fascinating how our minds work when rational thought is at war with emotion?
Kate Watterson
#10. When you're at war with the devil sometimes you gotta dial up a demon,
T.M. Frazier
#11. The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
#12. What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.
John Flavel
#13. We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Alan Watts
#14. When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
Thornton Wilder
#15. Esau has always been at war with Jacob. The struggle that began in their mother's womb between two natured peoples (or nations) continues today.
Jerry Hannah
#16. I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.
George W. Bush
#17. A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
Ed Brubaker
#18. Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.
Chelsea Handler
#19. 35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.
Jeff Bridges
#20. One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.
Nathaniel Branden
#21. Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.
William Shakespeare
#22. I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
Nick Cave
#23. Isn't there some law against torture of prisoners? The Geneva Convention or something?"
"Only if we were at war." He tied the lace on his second boot and leaped up, welcoming the energy sparking in his veins.
'"Some might argue that we are.
Brynn Kelly
#25. No one can keep out of conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.
Anne Frank
#26. We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.
Amy Harmon
#27. It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
Rush Limbaugh
#28. Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be
at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means.
It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.
Gore Vidal
#29. Humans have precious few instincts, but that's because we don't listen to them. We let logic and knowledge get in the way. My dad always said that when instincts are at war with something society has taught you, listen to your instincts first and ask questions later.
Elizabeth Norris
#30. Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#31. I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respect, if you will - that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don't want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.
Mary Jo White
#32. Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it
that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
Eric Gill
#33. Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela
Kate Atkinson
#34. Fear is always at war with faith.
Toba Beta
#35. Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.
Steven Hatfill
#36. our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life.
Naomi Klein
#37. Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.
Balroop Singh
#39. We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
Elton John
#40. If she hadn't been at peace, then at least she
wasn't at war with herself.
Sherry Thomas
#41. Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.
Tori Amos
#42. I feel worse than I have ever done before, because now I know that it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace, and a country at war is a bitter place to live, a risky place to have daughters, and a dangerous place to hope for a son.
Philippa Gregory
#43. Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at war, and I am a soldier and now you too will taste the reality of this situation.
Mohamed Khan
#44. She realized that the landscape of a woman's soul could change as quickly as a world at war.
Kristin Hannah
#45. Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing.
Toba Beta
#47. Two parts of me have been at war. Your... odd family, your financial troubles- your in a different world from me. people expect me to travel in certain circles. And I do respect the wishes of my family, but not today. I've tried to fight it for months now, but Lizzie Bennet... I'm in love with you.
Bernie Su
#48. There is no such thing as a "peacekeeping mission" in the Middle East. Period. The Middle East has been at war, literally, since the dawn of history. The
Larry Correia
#49. Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean, they're representing these two different camps that are at war in the streets. And they're at war with their words. And each was looking for a knockout.
Morgan Neville
#50. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.
Pema Chodron
#52. The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.
Bill Johnson
#53. In the past, we'd talked about books and other people, but now we talked only of our respective babies, hers sweet-faced and docile, mine at war with the world.
Jenny Offill
#54. If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.
T. Scott McLeod
#55. We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
Condoleezza Rice
#56. Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy.
Debasish Mridha
#57. We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.
Barack Obama
#58. Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace.
Gavriel Savit
#60. And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much.
Jay Asher
#61. An organism at war with itself is doomed.
Carl Sagan
#62. When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?
Rita Moreno
#63. The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
Ernie Pyle
#64. I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.
Sandy Duncan
#65. It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.
Casey Spooner
#66. I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.
Donald Trump
#67. The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
George Orwell
#68. I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.
Bill Maher
#69. We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.
Nhat Hanh
#70. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
George Orwell
#71. Hate is at war with love! fire is at war with earth! friends are at war with friends! belief is at war with belief! the world is hostage to destruction!
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#72. What did you tell me, Jesse? Sure Jake, Stephanie will do exactly what you tell her. Sure Jake, protecting her will be a piece of cake. "
Snorting in disbelief, he added, "Being at war is safer compared to this shit, and it's a hell of a lot easier than looking after your girlfriend.
Nina D'Angelo
#73. Were you disappointed?"
She takes a deep breath, looking down at her hands. "My heart was. My head wasn't. Most days I'm at war with myself. My head wins, usually. And for that I'm glad.
Melinda Salisbury
#75. I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?
Benjamin Brindise
#76. Lucy nodded dutifully, all the while making a mental list of all the places she would rather be. Paris, Venice, Greece, although weren't they at war? No matter. She would still rather be in Greece.
(On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn)
Julia Quinn
#77. I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
Kurt Vonnegut
#78. What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.
John Green
#80. As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.
Hugo Weaving
#81. The warrior has awareness ... we are aware that we are at war , and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.
Miguel Ruiz
#82. When People in sales are at work, they are at war.
Honeya
#83. I'm not your destiny, or the Devil either!' I said. 'Look at you! Came to kill evil with your bare hands, and now away you go with no more glory than a man sideswiped by a Greyhound bus! And that's all the glory you deserve!' I said. 'That's all that any man at war with pure evil deserves.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. When the country is at war, you need to support the president.
Ralph Hall
#85. Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Octavia Butler
#86. Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely.
Glenn Greenwald
#87. We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.
Kermit Roosevelt III
#88. To be a black male is to be always at war, and no flight to the county can save us, because even there we are met by the assupmtion of violence, by the specter of who we might turn on next.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#89. Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.
Jillian Lauren
#90. A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.
Jack Higgins
#91. When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.
Trent Lott
#92. The Christian Miracle's chief disclosure is this: the Creator of the universe is not at war with us. Neither is his favor for sale; no number of brownie points can possibly buy it. God loves us freely and unconditionally.
Michael Guillen
#93. I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
Bette Midler
#94. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.
Matthew Kelly
#95. The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
Aristotle.
#96. Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.
Raheel Farooq
#97. So, we're at war. Perfect. Shall we save time and kill each other now, or did you want to wait until later?
-Puck
Julie Kagawa
#98. Defend what's left. You can have fifty men."
"Fifty! That's not enough ... "
"Forty," I snarled, "and if you lose the fort I'll cut your kidneys out and eat them."
We were at war.
Bernard Cornwell
#99. In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid
#100. Revelation is a pastor's letter to his floundering flock, an urgent telegram bearing a brilliant battle plan for a people at war.
Billy Graham
