Meaningful War Quotes

#1. Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William S. Burroughs

#2. DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.

Shane Salerno

#3. Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction and a shared love of the outdoors than meaningful conversation.

Robert Radcliffe

#4. No problem. Just drop it back off before you go," he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on Bowie's early stuff and starts sweet-talking, dammit, you run. You run as fast as you can.

Hannah Harrington

#5. The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.

Karl Marlantes

#6. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Karen Horney

#7. To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

Tariq Ali

#8. Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can't stand deep-dish pizza. I'm a New York-style pizza person.

Graham Elliot

#9. We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone. It is multidimensional in scope, requiring meaningful participation of people at all levels.

Widad Akreyi

#10. Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Jonah Goldberg

#11. Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

Evan Esar

#13. What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

Voltaire

#14. There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

Anthony H. Cordesman

#15. People had always said that Ove was bitter. But he wasn't bloody bitter. He just didn't go around grinning the whole time. Did that mean one had to be treated like a criminal? Ove hardly thought so. Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him.

Fredrik Backman

#16. All my adult life I have deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems. I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting and meaningful brotherhood and peace.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Vivienne Westwood

#18. I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

Jonathan Ames

#19. Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice.

Rodney Ross

#20. The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?

Helen Keller

#21. I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Wilfrid Laurier

#22. Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade ... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.

Robert D. Arnott

#23. The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

Douglas Brinkley