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Image of J. D. Salinger
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
- J. D. Salinger
Collection: War
Image of Arlen Specter
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
- Arlen Specter
Collection: War
Image of George Bernard Shaw
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Merton
Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Merton
The root of war is fear.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: War
Image of Alice Walker
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
- Alice Walker
Collection: War
Image of Peace Pilgrim
Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.
- Peace Pilgrim
Collection: War
Image of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Collection: War
Image of Charles Spurgeon
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'
- Charles Spurgeon
Collection: War
Image of Frederic Bastiat
Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.
- Frederic Bastiat
Collection: War
Image of Desmond Tutu
Anything war can do, peace can do better.
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: War
Image of Mario Puzo
Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.
- Mario Puzo
Collection: War
Image of Mario Puzo
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
- Mario Puzo
Collection: War
Image of Bruce Sterling
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
- Bruce Sterling
Collection: War
Image of Jean Vanier
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.
- Jean Vanier
Collection: War
Image of Andy Warhol
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- Andy Warhol
Collection: War
Image of Tupac Shakur
And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.
- Tupac Shakur
Collection: War
Image of Bill O'Reilly
Hanks is a good man, and he produced the "John Adams" series as well. He does good work. But I'm more worried about a Tom Hanks when we're at war against radical Islam than I am against a caricature like Sean Penn. He's a completely marginalized soul.
- Bill O'Reilly
Collection: War
Image of Walker Percy
Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
- Walker Percy
Collection: War
Image of Michael Morpurgo
But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.
- Michael Morpurgo
Collection: War
Image of Jane Addams
My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.
- Jane Addams
Collection: War
Image of Murray Rothbard
All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.
- Murray Rothbard
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Paine
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?
- Thomas Paine
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Paine
It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Rand Paul
We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.
- Rand Paul
Collection: War
Image of Rand Paul
I don't think he fully analyzes the situation. If you destabilize [Bashar] Assad and punish Assad, you do embolden terrorists. You embolden al-Qaida because al-Qaida is on the other side of this war. So, one side wins if you destabilize the other side. So, he will be emboldening al-Qaida and the Islamic rebels. And I'm not so sure they're better than Assad.
- Rand Paul
Collection: War
Image of Catherynne M. Valente
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.
- Catherynne M. Valente
Collection: War
Image of Karen Chance
He’s a war mage. They’re almost impossible to kill.” He scowled. “Even on purpose.
- Karen Chance
Collection: War
Image of Kristin Cashore
All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
- Kristin Cashore
Collection: War
Image of Kristin Cashore
We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered." After a moment, he added. "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.
- Kristin Cashore
Collection: War
Image of Fritz Sauckel
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
- Fritz Sauckel
Collection: War
Image of Veronica Roth
Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?" "Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.
- Veronica Roth
Collection: War
Image of Veronica Roth
I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
- Veronica Roth
Collection: War
Image of Omar N. Bradley
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.
- Omar N. Bradley
Collection: War
Image of Omar N. Bradley
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
- Omar N. Bradley
Collection: War
Image of Omar N. Bradley
As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.
- Omar N. Bradley
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Thatcher
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: War
Image of Carl Sandburg
What if they gave a war and nobody came?
- Carl Sandburg
Collection: War
Image of Robert Orben
A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.
- Robert Orben
Collection: War
Image of Eleanor Roosevelt
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Collection: War
Image of Arundhati Roy
The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: War
Image of Spike Milligan
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!
- Spike Milligan
Collection: War
Image of Kanye West
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.
- Kanye West
Collection: War
Image of Alanis Morissette
There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.
- Alanis Morissette
Collection: War
Image of Joni Mitchell
All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: War
Image of Vladimir Putin
You made these things up yourselves and now scare yourselves with them and even use them to plan your prospective policies. These policies have no prospects. The only possible future is in cooperation in all areas, including security issues. What is the major security problem today? Terrorism. There are bombings in Europe, in Paris, in Russia, in Belgium. There is a war in the Middle East. This is the main concern. But no, let us keep speculating on the threat from Russia.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: War