Justifications For War Quotes

#1. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

Chris Hayes

#2. A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.

Roger Ebert

#3. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks - all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.

Steven Erikson

#4. One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.

Franz Bardon

#5. Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

Anton Chekhov

#6. I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

Jacques Maritain

#7. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed ...

James Joyce

#8. Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.

Martin Jacques

#9. I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

Eli Manning

#10. HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER

Dan Simmons

#11. She inches closer so we're practically sharing the same air. Maybe we are, because I'm light-headed.

Kat Kruger