Quotes About Cost Of War

#1. The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

Barbara Tuchman

#2. The true cost of war can't be measured in dollars, infrastructure, or body counts. It is tomorrows, wrung out of hope by yesterdays that refuse to retreat, vanish into the smoke of memory.

Ellen Hopkins

#3. The cost of war impacts all of us - both in the human cost and the cost that's being felt frankly in places like Flint, Michigan, where families and children are devastated and destroyed by completely failed infrastructure because of lack of investment.

Tulsi Gabbard

#4. As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Tulsi Gabbard

#5. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

Tulsi Gabbard

#7. What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

W.E.B. Du Bois

#8. The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

Aysha Taryam

#9. I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.

Adam McKay

#10. To The Veterans of the United States of America
Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted.

Sara Niles

#11. It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

Nikola Tesla

#12. Something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.

Donald Rumsfeld

#13. The American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.

Rachel Maddow

#14. If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we
must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches
of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

Oche Otorkpa

#16. We should stop worrying so much about the price of gasoline and start considering its cost. You really want to be patriotic? Don't change your car by putting a flag on it, change the car.

Bill Maher

#17. The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents 23,000 lives lost every day, or more than six people killed every minute, for six long years.

Andrew Roberts

#18. Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

Tim Robbins

#19. We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#20. A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

Brendan Behan

#21. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Erich Maria Remarque

#22. A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

Vladimir Yakunin

#23. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Chief Seattle

#24. Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Arthur Henderson

#25. War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Smedley Butler

#26. The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

Jim Cooper

#27. Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.

Nicholas Stern

#28. The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

John P. Wheeler III

#29. The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

Glenn Greenwald

#30. If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

George Friedman

#31. Wicked Abyss, page 279, Lila, Princess Calliope of Sylvan to Abyssian "Sian" Infernas, King of Pandemonia

"There's a face to the violence you love so much, a cost that the Morior never have to pay. Why wouldn't you love war? You never feel the toll like the rest of us.

Kresley Cole

#32. This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.

But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against the American atomic bomb in 1945. Then the Communists changed their tactics and suddenly became advocates of peace at any cost.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#33. Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .

George Lee Butler

#34. Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see

Nancy Holder

#35. The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

John Olver

#36. Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

Jay Leno

#37. We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

Olive Schreiner

#38. In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same. Instead of peace, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, we have an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.

Jodie Evans

#39. Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

James A. Garfield

#40. If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

Philip Pullman

#41. It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

Creighton W. Abrams Jr.

#42. Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

Richard M. Nixon

#43. The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties ... but ... I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

Ugo Cavallero

#44. 3A.02 WAR
Expenses for war equipment,
Training and peoples recruitment,
Be at the cost of hunger and pride,
Humanity be charred in this ride.
[196] - 3A

Munindra Misra

#45. I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

David Suzuki

#46. I remember friends from wars all but we forgot.
All of them distilled into each wound we caught.
Those wounds are all painful places where we fought.
Battles never left behind, ones we never sought.
What is it that we spent and what was it we bought?

Frank Herbert

#47. Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

Stanislaw Lem

#48. Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

John Warner

#49. Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.

Bernhard Von Bulow

#50. This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Clint Eastwood

#51. For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

Joseph Stiglitz

#52. It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Marianne Williamson

#53. America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

Barbara Mikulski