Top 1200 Perpetual War Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

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

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

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

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We know in the United States of America there is no difference in drug use between black, white and Latinos. But if you're Latino in the United States of America, you're about twice as likely to be arrested for drug use than if you're white. If you're black, you are about four times as likely to be arrested if you're African American than if you are white. This drug war has done so much to destroy, undermine, sabotage families, communities, neighborhoods, cities.

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.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

We must end war before war ends us.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

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

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.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

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

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.

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

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.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

Martin Kampmann, that was a war. Jake Ellenberger, that was a war. Then I didn't take damage until Gilbert Melendez.

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.

The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.

With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

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.