War Rhetoric Quotes

#1. No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

George W. Bush

#2. So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.

John F. Kennedy

#3. The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.

Dave Barry

#4. In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

Stephen L. Carter

#5. Religion really means to rejoin that which seems to be separate.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#6. Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh

#7. Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

Ronald Reagan

#9. I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.

Marilyn Manson

#10. Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.

Harlan Coben

#11. Once you shift your thoughts for the better, your world begins to shift with them.

Marcey Shapiro

#12. Life is really hard for some people.

Beeban Kidron

#13. What were you doing fighting with me at Kirov, knowing all this was stacked against us?

Raging against my fate.

Paullina Simons

#14. Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Radhanath Swami

#15. And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that "knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Hisham Matar

#16. So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Joyce Meyer

#17. Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

John S. Tanner

#18. Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

Vladimir Putin

#19. Ask the Creator to direct your path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people.

Charles Manson

#21. People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.

J. Sterling

#22. So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

Pankaj Mishra