Top 100 Quotes About Of War
#1. Heat and dryness frightens me,
like skeletal shapes of war,
two of them look doomed
and challenge the peace blazing.
J.M.K. Walkow
#2. Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
Elliott Carter
#3. Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.
Widad Akreyi
#4. Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
Nancy Gibbs
#5. The irony of war," he said. "It has always been this way. We are taught to think that the battle lines separate the good from the bad, but the truth, as you are beginning to understand, is less comfortable.
Jonathan Renshaw
#6. The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Howard Thurman
#8. My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us ... step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.
John F. Kennedy
#9. faith is an internal tug-of-war, not an external fight.
Elisa Medhus
#10. With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.
John Fusco
#11. Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
Frieda Lawrence
#12. Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson
#13. To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more the cause of them than were the kings of the imperialistic period the cause of war.
E. M. Forster
#14. Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in injury, victory in the midst of despondence, and courage in the midst of alarm, resistance in the midst of temptation, peace in the midst of war.
Michael Molinos
#15. Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.
Michael Ondaatje
#17. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#18. The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.
Hannah Arendt
#19. Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.
Dario Spini
#20. Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war.
Kate Atkinson
#21. We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
Christian Dior
#22. In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.
Edward Condon
#23. Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
Phil Klay
#24. It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.
Benito Mussolini
#25. Humans, no matter their Color, are fragile as doves in the meat grinder of war.
Pierce Brown
#26. Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.
The Arbinger Institute
#27. In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.
Dana Gould
#28. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free.
Ron Paul
#29. But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
Fredrik Bajer
#30. The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#31. The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment ... that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.
Ernest Rutherford
#32. The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.
Wernher Von Braun
#33. Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.
Steve Berry
#35. As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. War and the threat of war stimulate speculation upon the conditions of peace.
Kenneth N. Waltz
#37. All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods
Gregory Benford
#39. Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?
David Finkel
#40. Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.
Homer
#41. Now by the laws of war, better than defeating a country by fire and the sword, is to take it without strife.
Sun Tzu
#42. The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
William E. Gladstone
#43. I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.
Barack Obama
#44. No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#45. Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.
David Limbaugh
#46. Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep among strangers, that familiarity, those memories, those ties kept us going; gave us a reason to persevere; toughened us up.
Carlos Wallace
#47. The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Chris Hedges
#48. Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
George Takei
#49. Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.
Henry George
#50. But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they must accept death or worse. Few women have the courage for self-destruction. "To the victor belong the spoils," and women have ever been the spoils of war.
Zane Grey
#51. Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
John Foster Dulles
#52. No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
Anton Walbrook
#53. It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
Ali Al-Sistani
#54. War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
Marguerite Duras
#55. The outbreak of war in 1792 offered enticing opportunities to attain longstanding
George C. Herring
#56. In time of war there is a unification of interests, especially if the war is fierce; but in time of peace the clash may be very great between the interests of one class and those of another.
Bertrand Russell
#57. Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.
Karen White
#58. I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!
Anne Frank
#59. It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.
Sun Tzu
#60. We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.
Agnes Newton Keith
#61. It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#62. 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
#63. But is it crime or an act of war? Depends on who's telling the story ...
Lavie Tidhar
#64. A woman in love with another woman is revolution's revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love.
Anonymous
#65. The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.
Charles A. Beard
#66. Are you all right?'
I nodded my damn chicken head and prayed prayed like the world and all the victims of war, famine, and disease counted on it. God ... please dont let me lay an egg. Not now
Cecy Robson
#67. I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
George Packer
#68. In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost ... the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.
Albert Speer
#70. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#71. Thanks," Johann finally said. "It's the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.
Lee Strauss
#72. Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.
Poul Hartling
#73. Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
Dan Simmons
#74. Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
William Ellery Channing
#75. In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible
such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
Maxim Gorky
#76. Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#77. Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Zebulon Pike
#79. Mahlia knew the many voices of war from her father's chant.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#80. A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler
#81. Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.
Bob Dylan
#82. I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case.
Emily Tomko
#83. We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
Stefan Molyneux
#84. So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
Gerald Scarfe
#85. Whoa, sexy weirdness," said Emma. "This may be more sexy weirdness than I can handle."
"It is not weird!"
"It is," said Emma. "You are headed for a faerie threesome. Or some kind of war."
"Emma!"
"Hot faerie threesome," said Emma cheerfully. "I can say I knew you when.
Cassandra Clare
#86. The nature of war is constant change.
Sun Tzu
#87. To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.
Alexander Hamilton
#88. The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of those rights; and by degrees, the people are brought to consider the soldiery not only as their protectors but as their superiors.
Alexander Hamilton
#89. What is striking about such unmediated juxtapositions, and relevant to the way in which at the end of war opened bodies and verbal issues are placed side by side, is that in most instances the verbal assertion has no source of substantiation other than the body.
Elaine Scarry
#90. Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#91. Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!
Pitirim Sorokin
#92. The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Chris Hedges
#93. 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
#94. The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay ... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale
David Lloyd George
#96. I think, though, that another shame of war is that when it's over, a soldier don't get to leave it behind where he fought it. He's gotta carry it right back home with him, in his head, and in his heart.
Sandra Kring
#97. The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
Homer
#98. We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter
#99. War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
Martin Luther
#100. Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Otto Von Bismarck
