Quotes About War

#1. The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

Helen Fisher

#2. In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

John Pople

#3. This is madness, Catelyn thought. Real enemies on every side and half the realm in flames, and Renly sits here playing at war like a boy with his first wooden sword.

George R R Martin

#4. I'm glad I never went to war.

Nick Nolte

#5. War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Pope Francis

#6. In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

Philip Caputo

#7. Men were made for war; designed to struggle and strive to protect and provide.

James MacDonald

#8. When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in ... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

Robert E. Howard

#9. Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

Marianne Williamson

#10. I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.

Bill Vaughan

#11. A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Horatio Nelson

#12. If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

Lee Myung-bak

#13. All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

David Zindell

#14. A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.

Jackie Morse Kessler

#15. There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

#16. [Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

Karen Horney

#17. The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ramsey Clark

#18. The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rand Paul

#19. Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

Sara Sheridan

#20. One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.

Doc Hastings

#22. I am at war with the obvious.

William Eggleston

#23. War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

Giles Duley

#24. I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Paddy Ashdown

#25. Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

Nick Hornby

#26. Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

Phil Klay

#27. The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously.

Joe Pitts

#28. The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#29. I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Madeleine Albright

#30. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#31. Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

Jon Stewart

#32. On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Patricia Cornwell

#33. While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.

Joe Heck

#34. It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.

Vince Flynn

#35. It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.

Jacques Ellul

#36. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out, on closer inspection, to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, emergencies.

C.S. Lewis

#37. This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

Joe Scarborough

#38. Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.

Miles Kington

#39. Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

Abraham Lincoln

#40. war. But I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable - and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade - he would say, "If this isn't nice, what is?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#41. The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.

Henry David Thoreau

#42. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

Sherman Alexie

#43. So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

Paul Begala

#44. Facts are now coming to light that show Muslims were not responsible for 9/11. A policy came out of the Pentagon to make war and to pit the Muslims against each other and rip up these "cells of terror."

Louis Farrakhan

#45. He is a general at war with his own army. An exhorter of radical beliefs, shrinking from their obvious conclusions. It was so much easier in the lecture hall, the salon, the seminar. When theory need not be demonstrated in blood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#46. So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

Malcolm Wallop

#47. There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

Dennis Prager

#48. Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.

Rachel Caine

#49. He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

Nora Roberts

#50. Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.

Donald Evans

#51. A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable.

Lauren Beukes

#52. The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.

Ronald Reagan

#53. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#54. As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

George Orwell

#55. Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

Lewis B. Smedes

#56. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Fannie Hurst

#57. The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Joe Wilson

#58. The dey of Algiers took the occasion of the War of 1812 to renege on his treaty obligations with the United States;

Adrian Tinniswood

#59. Man said, I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!

Henry Van Dyke

#60. if someone merely wishes to provoke you, shake the dust from your feet and carry on. Fight only with a worthy opponent, and not with someone who uses trickery to prolong a war that is already over, as does sometimes happen.

Paulo Coelho

#61. Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

Kurt Vonnegut

#62. anchorages. As the war progressed, the advanced

E.B. Potter

#63. We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#64. Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent ... When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

Paul Gauguin

#65. Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

Michael Ledeen

#66. War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Brian A. McBride

#67. Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

Tommy Chong

#68. Cry 'Havoc!'108 and let slip109 the dogs of war,

William Shakespeare

#69. If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#70. He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.

Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

#71. The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton

#72. During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

Ibrahim Rugova

#73. Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Antonin Scalia

#74. The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Hirohito

#75. But this is war. We don't have the luxury of good ideas - only picking between the bad ones.

Sarah J. Maas

#76. Keep the peace of the kingdoms, keep the peace of the kingdoms. Bring the end of war. Let there be no empire to disturb us all. Look after the Father. Keep the peace of the kingdoms.

Philip Dodd

#77. It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E.Lee

#78. The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

Noam Chomsky

#79. We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#80. A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

Mary Pope Osborne

#81. The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

Rudy Giuliani

#82. Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one's own people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#83. If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

Abraham Lincoln

#84. In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.

Jessie Penn-Lewis

#85. American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187,500 in 1936.)

Benjamin Balint

#86. War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

Philip Pullman

#87. And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

John Greenleaf Whittier

#88. Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

Ludwig Quidde

#89. One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

Henry A. Kissinger

#90. How you men stand up for each other!
How you women war against each other!

Oscar Wilde

#91. I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark' ... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.

Neil Marshall

#92. The ( Catholic ) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco 's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler .

Christopher Hitchens

#93. The moral arguments against war are irrefutable. As the musician Edwin Starr put it, War. Hunh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

Steven Pinker

#94. Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war? An absurd Olympics of semantic excuses. Ludicrous.

Hazel Woods

#95. War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.

Terry Goodkind

#96. We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Thomas Jefferson

#97. For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Bruce Jackson

#98. We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#99. The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

William James

#100. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

Sun Tzu