Top 100 War That Quotes
#1. He tried hard to forget the images of war that now began to haunt him.
Jason Medina
#2. The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power.
Condoleezza Rice
#3. Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
Charles Sumner
#4. Empty lipstick cases are like spent cartridges from the eternal war that is love. A used tube has the quality of those books you are reluctant to give away and they line the shelves in my bathroom, mementos of nights to remember.
Chloe Thurlow
#5. You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.
Midge Ure
#6. I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.
Jimmy Carr
#7. Chinese authorities demonstrated during the climate-related civil war that began in Sudan in 2003 that they would support mass murderers when doing so seemed to serve their investments. In
Timothy Snyder
#8. It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.
Duop Chak Wuol
#9. So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it's different; it's important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.
Martha Rosler
#10. Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
Mother Teresa
#11. The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ...
Marian Wright Edelman
#12. We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#13. For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
Karl Marlantes
#14. You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Millions of people died in the war "to make the world safe for democracy" - a war that led to autocratic dynasties being replaced by totalitarian dictatorships that slaughtered far more of their own people than the dynasties had?
Thomas Sowell
#16. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So close to the other side, so far from the wonder. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So sick of the tug of war, that keeps pulling me under
5 Seconds Of Summer
#18. No one is my enemy or the Gospel's ... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free.
Bill Myers
#19. There ain't nothin' you can say about war that ain't personal. It's all personal.
Dan Groat
#20. We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.
Carol Moseley Braun
#21. The government must rethink its strategy toward the Bedouin, or else those in the area who are armed will turn it into the war that Cairo seems to be pushing for.
John R. Bradley
#22. Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.
John Locke
#23. It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.
Joe Teti
#24. And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the left can seize upon and later flog us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.
Dennis Miller
#25. And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.
Michael Haneke
#26. 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
#27. Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
Stafford Cripps
#28. I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
Winston Churchill
#29. It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
William Westmoreland
#30. I believed, with morbid sincerity, that if I could make him my friend, we would together, in some small but consequential way, defy the wicked logic of hate and war, that we, together, would stand as a rebuke to the grotesque idea that our problem was without a solution.
Jeffrey Goldberg
#31. I don't think drugs should be illegal. I'm not an advocate of everybody running out and using drugs, but I think the drug wars are not working, there's millions and millions of dollars being spent on the drug war that we're never going to win.
Sonny Barger
#32. In Greece, British troops entered after the Nazis had withdrawn. They imposed a corrupt regime that evoked renewed resistance, and Britain, in its postwar decline, was unable to maintain control. In 1947, the United States moved in, supporting a murderous war that resulted in about 160,000 deaths.
Noam Chomsky
#33. Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
Oriana Fallaci
#34. We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle.
#35. The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.
Emmanuel Jal
#36. I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.
Michael Moore
#38. We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause ...
Scott Ritter
#39. Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.
John Ferling
#40. I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!
Roger Bannister
#41. The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.
Patrick Ness
#43. We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
Elton John
#44. The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing will bring about the type of war that will end America completely as a power in the world.
Louis Farrakhan
#45. A war that operates in every human mind below the subconscious level, like a computer program, constantly running in the background, guiding us to some eventuality." Kate
A.G. Riddle
#46. I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.
George W. Bush
#47. There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
Neil Gaiman
#48. I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
Juan Cole
#49. I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.
Charles Guggenheim
#50. There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
Garry Wills
#51. This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.
Cindy Sheehan
#52. There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
Caroline Glick
#53. The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.
Gene Luen Yang
#54. To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.
Frank B. Kellogg
#55. This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.
James Carville
#56. I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
Benazir Bhutto
#57. War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
Bell Hooks
#58. I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Jacques Chirac
#60. And in the stillness before dawn, on the brink of a war that could tear us apart, our auras danced and twined in the darkness, coiling around each other until they finally merged, becoming one.
Julie Kagawa
#61. I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.
Sandy Duncan
#62. Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.
David Kay
#63. There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.
Arundhati Roy
#64. For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
Bruce Jackson
#65. 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
#66. [Ed Murrow] admitted he was having trouble coming to grips with the idea of peace: "Trying to realize what has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past. The war that was seems more real than the peace that has come.
Lynne Olson
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
Olivia Wilde
#71. I simply write what I want, wish, long to write ... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.
Tanith Lee
#72. Famine, plague, death and war ... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention.
Philip Jenkins
#74. Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.
Achille Mbembe
#75. They say a good soldier fights a battle, never a war. That's for civilians.
John Steinbeck
#76. It's a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person's life. More than that, it's a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crowd in a moment of panic.
Trevor D. Richardson
#77. Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195
Robert Harris
#78. A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win - been if some men... go home victorious.
Alex Latimer
#79. Is is war that creates a monster or a monster that creates war.
Laini Taylor
#80. The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.
H.G.Wells
#81. This war that is coming - are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax
Sara Pennypacker
#82. There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#83. Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war, that carries culture forward.
Sharon E. McKay
#84. 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
#86. War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
Charles Sumner
#87. The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.
Bernie Sanders
#88. There is no such thing as a "war hero", because there is nothing about war that is heroic.
Michel Templet
#89. The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
Barry Commoner
#90. But what I really need is to fucking SCREAM because this feels like a war that I got thrown into, and I don't know how I can be so tired and mad at the same time.
Emery Lord
#91. What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
Bernard Levin
#92. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality ... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#93. Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!
Pitirim Sorokin
#94. In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?
Ben Okri
#95. Love is a conquest. Love is a war. That is all it is.
Marissa Meyer
#96. People are cruel. They like to kill. It's the war that has taught them that. And there are explosives lying around everywhere
Agota Kristof
#97. Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing.
Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.
Toba Beta
#98. And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#99. For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.
Rhys Ifans
#100. The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.
Llewellyn Rockwell
