Top 1200 Cost Of War Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or less. For example, I think mortgage refinancing can cost - now, it's probably hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. So, in other words, they are allowing you to bid on what people are going to type, and that is the AdWords program. So you own certain terms, and then your ads show up as opposed to someone else's.

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.

There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

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.

NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations with China cost us millions of jobs. Look, I was on a picket line in early 1990's against NFATA because you didn't need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear 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 grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.

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.

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.

In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

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

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.

What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.

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.

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

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

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

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.

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

There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

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

I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to participate in Iraq War.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

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.

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.

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

The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

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

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.

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

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.

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

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.

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.