Top 1200 Good 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.

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

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

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

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

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

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.

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

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.

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

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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 know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

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.

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.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

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.

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

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

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

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

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.