Top 1200 War Hero Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.

He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

Women are so much a part of war, even if they tend to see another side of it. To say they don't understand war is ridiculous.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

There is no war between Muslims and Americans. There is no war between Americans and the poor people in the world. There is only a war between people on the top who have their own agenda.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.