Top 1200 Reality Of War Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

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

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.

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

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.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

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

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

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.

... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

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

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.

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

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

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

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 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.

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

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

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.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

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

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.

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.

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

Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.

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

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.

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