Top 1200 Perpetual War Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

Too many people are making images of war. If I want to see war, I'll watch the news.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is endowed with tremendous power and can transform many things or clear the way for their transformation. The Sino-Japanese war will transform both China and Japan; provided China perseveres in the War of Resistance and in the united front, the old Japan will surely be transformed into a new Japan and the old China into a new China, and people and everything else in both China and Japan will be transformed during and after the war.

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First World War wasn't fought for that reason. The Second World War wasn't fought for that reason. Your entire country and way of life could be overtaken.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

In the midst of the war against ISIS, we have also waged war on corruption in civil and military institutions.

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.

We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying "Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba."

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.