Top war Quotes Collection - Page 80

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Image of Voltaire
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
- Voltaire
Collection: War
Image of Woodrow Wilson
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
- Woodrow Wilson
Collection: War
Image of George Orwell
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.
- George Orwell
Collection: War
Image of George Orwell
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.
- George Orwell
Collection: War
Image of George Orwell
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
- George Orwell
Collection: War
Image of Gary Zukav
There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.
- Gary Zukav
Collection: War
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: War
Image of Donald Trump
I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most, may be those parts of Africa around Somalia that are enduring a climate-caused and really record-breaking drought. It may be the greatest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. And of course, where humanitarian crises happen, so do political instability. This is the world that we're building and building fast. And it's the world that people are trying somehow to slow down. Trying very hard to bring down this fossil fuel machine before it does any more damage.
- Donald Trump
Collection: War
Image of Vladimir Putin
What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no longer trusted President Yanukovych. However, they should have legitimately come to the polls and voted for another head of state instead of staging a coup d'état. And after the coup d'état took place, someone supported it, someone was satisfied with it, while others were not. And those who did not like it were treated from the position of force. And that led to a civil war.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: War
Image of Donald Trump
[Hillary Clinton] is the one who raised her hand for the war in Iraq and I'm the one who has been fighting it.
- Donald Trump
Collection: War
Image of Tom Petty
When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
- Tom Petty
Collection: War
Image of Joseph Story
If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.
- Joseph Story
Collection: War
Image of Joseph Story
It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.
- Joseph Story
Collection: War
Image of Colin Powell
There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.
- Colin Powell
Collection: War
Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: War
Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: War
Image of Katherine Applegate
I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.
- Katherine Applegate
Collection: War
Image of William Shakespeare
Fight to the last gasp.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: War
Image of Sarah Vowell
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
- Sarah Vowell
Collection: War
Image of Sarah Vowell
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
- Sarah Vowell
Collection: War
Image of Vladimir Putin
It was at a certain stage (you might have forgotten, haven't you?) that the United States actively collaborated with Saddam when he was at war with Iran: weapons were supplied, diplomatic and political support was provided and so on. Then the US fell out with him for some reason and decided to do away with him.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: War
Image of Vladimir Putin
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: War
Image of Alan Watts
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.
- Alan Watts
Collection: War
Image of Arundhati Roy
When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's lost in Iraq. And it will not be able to contain the situation. It is hemorrhaging. It is now - you know, of course you can continue with drone attacks, and you can continue these targeted killings, but on the ground, a situation is being created which no army - not America, not anybody - can control. And it's just, you know, a combination of such foolishness, such a lack of understanding of culture in the world.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: War
Image of Arundhati Roy
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: War
Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Collection: War
Image of Jesse Ventura
When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.
- Jesse Ventura
Collection: War
Image of Gore Vidal
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: War
Image of Gore Vidal
I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: War
Image of Gore Vidal
In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: War
Image of Ozzy Osbourne
Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.
- Ozzy Osbourne
Collection: War
Image of David Mitchell
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
- David Mitchell
Collection: War
Image of Jacqueline Carey
Wars come and go; politics endure.
- Jacqueline Carey
Collection: War
Image of Enoch Powell
I should like to have been killed in the war.
- Enoch Powell
Collection: War
Image of Vandana Shiva
We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.
- Vandana Shiva
Collection: War
Image of Viggo Mortensen
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.
- Viggo Mortensen
Collection: War
Image of Terry Pratchett
Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: War
Image of Laozi
When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
- Laozi
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
I engage and after that I see what to do.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Mark Twain
A wanton waste of projectiles.
- Mark Twain
Collection: War
Image of Tim O'Brien
Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.
- Tim O'Brien
Collection: War
Image of Tim O'Brien
I was a coward. I went to the war.
- Tim O'Brien
Collection: War
Image of Tim O'Brien
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
- Tim O'Brien
Collection: War
Image of Frank Sinatra
I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.
- Frank Sinatra
Collection: War
Image of Alexander Pope
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
- Alexander Pope
Collection: War