Top 100 Waged Quotes
#1. Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
Bernard Cornwell
#2. Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#3. Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.
Traci Lea LaRussa
#4. The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.
Nikolas Lee
#5. Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
Daron Malakian
#6. The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.
Eric Metaxas
#8. Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
Ferdowsi
#9. [M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.
Charles Kimball
#10. 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
#11. Updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we're in the
Suzanne Collins
#12. Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
Bill Moyers
#13. There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is the violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
Louis L'Amour
#14. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
George Clooney
#15. Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#16. War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#17. They waged war for decades, never realizing that they were fighting for the same cause.
-Campaigns East and West Tamoura, 1152-1180 by Scholar Tennan
Marie Lu
#18. They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie
#19. There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.
David Jeremiah
#20. All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
Eglantyne Jebb
#21. Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.
Angelina Grimke
#22. Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.
Daniel Pauly
#23. A once-in-a-thousand-year threat to Christianity is being waged wildly in the heart of the birthplace of Christianity.
Johnnie Moore
#24. They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#25. War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#26. How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#28. And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.
Ralph Bunche
#29. Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.
Kirby Page
#30. It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#31. In the place of the bells, where battle is waged,
The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today.
Dust yellows the air, our houses are smoking,
The sobbing is rising - from the lips of your Chalcans!
David Bowles
#33. War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
Simon Bolivar
#34. Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.
Frank Bruni
#35. The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
Gideon Welles
#36. The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.
Bryant McGill
#37. Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#38. The same fight was being waged, here the Nazis and there the Middle World; but in both places, Chaos against Law, something old and wild and blind at war with man and the works of man.
Poul Anderson
#39. The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved.
Ilyan Kei Lavanway
#40. They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
Barack Obama
#41. The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit
Janet Reno
#42. We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
Mike Rowe
#43. Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#44. With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
John Spratt
#45. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
Margo Kingston
#46. I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#47. Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against ... Christ ...
Denis Fahey
#48. According to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
#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. It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.
John Cassian
#51. Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.
Eusebius
#52. People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch. A
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#53. I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.
Kate Beckinsale
#54. War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
Saint Augustine
#55. But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
Bainbridge Colby
#56. The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
Friedrich Engels
#57. Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
Saint Augustine
#58. The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#59. A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
Tariq Ali
#60. The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Adrienne Rich
#61. You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know this: the war has come home! It is man's turn to embrace the scythe.
Alan Moore
#62. You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.
Romain Rolland
#63. The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).
Ilana Mercer
#64. From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war against the diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile. For
Yuval Noah Harari
#65. War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
Nancy Gibbs
#66. In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
William James
#67. Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But the fact remains that there is a propaganda campaign being waged against Russia. And this is disturbing.
Gennady Timchenko
#68. And then I would think about the war and about the fact that those who waged it were also children once.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#69. Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
Jim Harrison
#70. Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
Virginia Foxx
#71. Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.
Andre Suares
#72. There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.
J. C. Watts
#73. How shallow to presume war exists only within the physical world. Battles are waged for mind and soul, where things far from comprehension are confronted.
Christopher Hawke
#74. The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops, and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.
Steven Pressfield
#75. Yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars - the one waged within.
Fulton J. Sheen
#77. Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
William Jennings Bryan
#78. Spiritual giants are only willing, available and thirsty spiritual babies who paid the price for the prize, who waged a war for the victims to become victors, just like the courageous Davids that kill the big Goliaths.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#79. Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy.
Hillary Clinton
#80. Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.
Connie Kerbs
#81. With you ... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.
Melissa Petreschock
#82. History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.
Stieg Larsson
#83. The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control.
Michael Ignatieff
#84. The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Jose Marti
#85. Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
Martin Van Creveld
#86. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.
Neal Shusterman
#87. We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Roland Barthes
#88. The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.
Lysander Spooner
#89. Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Doug Harvey
#90. War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.
Bela Kiraly
#91. In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
Douglas MacArthur
#92. The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
Mao Zedong
#93. Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total ... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#94. Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.
Khaled Hosseini
#95. Poetry, is a life long war waged
against ineffable beauty.
Atticus Poetry
#96. When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.
Vladimir Lenin
#97. A so-called antimony war had been waged between French [Galenist] physicians and [alchemical, Paracelsian] iatrochemists since the beginning of the seventeenth century. What it lacked in bloodletting, this war made up for in bile.
Philip Ball
#98. Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.
Cosmo Gordon Lang
#99. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. ... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Oliver Stone
#100. Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.
Lance Conrad