Top war Quotes Collection - Page 105

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Image of J. Michael Straczynski
If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.
- J. Michael Straczynski
Collection: War
Image of John Milton
Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
- John Milton
Collection: War
Image of David Mitchell
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
- David Mitchell
Collection: War
Image of David Mitchell
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
- David Mitchell
Collection: War
Image of William Shakespeare
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: War
Image of Tim Robbins
Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
- Tim Robbins
Collection: War
Image of Charles Rangel
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich.
- Charles Rangel
Collection: War
Image of H. G. Wells
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.
- H. G. Wells
Collection: War
Image of George Washington
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
- George Washington
Collection: War
Image of Will Smith
We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When somebody is 19 years old, they're gonna do what they're gonna do just like we did... For me the most important thing was for him to know anytime he can call and I'll come whatever happens.
- Will Smith
Collection: War
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: War
Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Collection: War
Image of Ron Paul
The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of the dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.
- Ron Paul
Collection: War
Image of Tertullian
Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.
- Tertullian
Collection: War
Image of Tertullian
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
- Tertullian
Collection: War
Image of George Wald
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
- George Wald
Collection: War
Image of Joseph Addison
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
- Joseph Addison
Collection: War
Image of Mark Twain
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
- Mark Twain
Collection: War
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: War
Image of Philip Pullman
If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?
- Philip Pullman
Collection: War
Image of Dennis Prager
Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.
- Dennis Prager
Collection: War
Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Collection: War
Image of Mary Wortley Montagu
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!
- Mary Wortley Montagu
Collection: War
Image of Mary Wortley Montagu
It has all been most interesting.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of William Shakespeare
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: War
Image of Cesare Pavese
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
- Cesare Pavese
Collection: War
Image of Kate Morton
She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.
- Kate Morton
Collection: War
Image of Haruki Murakami
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
- Haruki Murakami
Collection: War
Image of Sylvia Plath
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.
- Sylvia Plath
Collection: War
Image of Oliver Stone
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
- Oliver Stone
Collection: War
Image of John Brunner
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
- John Brunner
Collection: War
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: War
Image of Patrick Ness
This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
- Patrick Ness
Collection: War
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: War
Image of Bernie Sanders
I think the war in the Mideast, how we got into it and how we're going to address the current problems, are issues that every American should be concerned about.
- Bernie Sanders
Collection: War
Image of Darren Shan
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.
- Darren Shan
Collection: War
Image of Scott Westerfeld
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
- Scott Westerfeld
Collection: War
Image of Scott Westerfeld
Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
- Scott Westerfeld
Collection: War
Image of Scott Westerfeld
That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.
- Scott Westerfeld
Collection: War
Image of Harry S. Truman
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
- Harry S. Truman
Collection: War
Image of Harry S. Truman
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
- Harry S. Truman
Collection: War
Image of Eddie Vedder
No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: War
Image of Eddie Vedder
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: War
Image of Eddie Vedder
It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: War
Image of Allen West
For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.
- Allen West
Collection: War