Top 1200 Endless War Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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.

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

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

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

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

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.

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

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

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

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.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

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

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

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

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

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.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities

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?

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.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

Once that Gauntlet is on, as the poster of Doctor Strange says, "the impossibilities are endless."

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

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.

While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

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 timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

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

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.