Top war Quotes Collection
Discover a curated collection of war quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.Collection: War
One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.Collection: War
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.Collection: War
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.Collection: War
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.Collection: War
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.Collection: War
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.Collection: War
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.Collection: War
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.Collection: War
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.Collection: War
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.Collection: War
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.Collection: War
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.Collection: War
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.Collection: War
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.Collection: War
Football is like war. It's about taking territory.Collection: War
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.Collection: War
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.Collection: War
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.Collection: War
Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.Collection: War
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.Collection: War
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.Collection: War
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.Collection: War
When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.Collection: War
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.Collection: War
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.Collection: War
What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.Collection: War
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.Collection: War
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.Collection: War
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.Collection: War
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.Collection: War
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Collection: War
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.Collection: War
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.Collection: War
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.Collection: War
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.Collection: War
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.Collection: War
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.Collection: War
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.Collection: War
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.Collection: War
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.Collection: War
Sports is like a war without the killing.Collection: War
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.Collection: War
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?Collection: War
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.Collection: War
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.Collection: War
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.Collection: War
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.Collection: War
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.Collection: War
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.Collection: War