Top 1200 Causes Of War Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Psychiatry causes so much death

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

The root causes of terrorism is terrorists.

Polygamy causes a lot of strife

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

Motives are causes experienced from within.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

Well I think what - the way things have improved obviously is that the killing has stopped in so for as there is no war. But if you talk to people in the north and east in general, there is a concern that the freedom that they expected as a consequence of the end of the war has yet to be realised.

When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

If you want change, create the causes.