Top war Quotes Collection - Page 106

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Image of Adam Schiff
Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
- Adam Schiff
Collection: War
Image of Shel Silverstein
I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war
- Shel Silverstein
Collection: War
Image of Edward Abbey
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: War
Image of Charley Reese
And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation.
- Charley Reese
Collection: War
Image of Charley Reese
I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.
- Charley Reese
Collection: War
Image of Heraclitus
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
- Heraclitus
Collection: War
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: War
Image of Stevie Smith
My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.
- Stevie Smith
Collection: War
Image of Colin Powell
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
- Colin Powell
Collection: War
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: War
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: War
Image of Brian K. Vaughan
We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.
- Brian K. Vaughan
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Burt Rutan
America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they had to build the big boosters in the arm's war, so now all of the sudden Russia could take off the shelf and put into orbit much heavier things than we could, so that's why they had the original leadership.
- Burt Rutan
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But to organize ourselves in such a way that means correspond to the ends, and to organize ourselves in such a way as to create kind of human relationship that should exist in future society. That would mean to organize ourselves without centralize authority, without charismatic leader, in a way that represents in miniature the ideal of the future egalitarian society.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Joseph Stiglitz
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax "relief" for the wealthy.
- Joseph Stiglitz
Collection: War
Image of Joseph Stiglitz
We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.
- Joseph Stiglitz
Collection: War
Image of Colin Powell
We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore that compels him to cooperate. If he cooperates, then the basis of changed regime policy has shifted because his regime has, in fact, changed its policy to one of cooperation. So if he cooperates, then that is different than if he does not cooperate.
- Colin Powell
Collection: War
Image of Barack Obama
What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
- Barack Obama
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Howard Zinn
There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: War
Image of Will Rogers
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
- Will Rogers
Collection: War
Image of Harry S. Truman
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.
- Harry S. Truman
Collection: War
Image of Eddie Vedder
I would think we have a trajectory of failure on the Republicans' part. When you think about how they managed to make John Kerry look bad during the last election for actually serving in Vietnam, and testifying in Congress after he'd gotten medals, and said that he didn't believe in them or that he didn't believe in the war and that it should stop . . . That they could turn that in negative when their guy, George W. Bush, never even went to Vietnam.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: War
Image of Eddie Vedder
People say, "I'm tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. I'm tired of hearing about it." And it makes me realize how few people have deeper connections with it, as far as knowing people who have come back paralyzed or who have died, or families that have been affected . . . If they had a connection to it, then they wouldn't be tired of hearing about it.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: War
Image of Allen West
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
- Allen West
Collection: War
Image of Donald Rumsfeld
An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Collection: War
Image of Joe Biden
Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.
- Joe Biden
Collection: War
Image of Neill Blomkamp
This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?
- Neill Blomkamp
Collection: War
Image of Douglas Rushkoff
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.
- Douglas Rushkoff
Collection: War
Image of Oliver Stone
It's very important to understand that World War II is at the base of this new policy. From the 1890s on, the U.S. was always imperialistic. We went after the Philippines, and we did the same in Cuba, in Hawaii. We controlled South America. Woodrow Wilson was not what he was supposed to be. He was very much a white man first. "The world must be made safe for democracy." It really accelerates after World War II.
- Oliver Stone
Collection: War
Image of Paul Tsongas
The cold war is over; Japan won.
- Paul Tsongas
Collection: War
Image of Seneca the Younger
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: War
Image of Patrick Ness
War makes monsters out of men.
- Patrick Ness
Collection: War