Top 1200 Post-War Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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.

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

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

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

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.

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

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

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

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.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

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

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

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

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

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

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.

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

I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

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

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

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.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

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.

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

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

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.

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

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.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

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.

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.

I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.

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

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

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

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."

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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 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.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

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.

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

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.

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