Top 1200 Total War Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

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

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

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad.

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

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

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

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.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

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

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

If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence of the great masters just to be aware and not to choose? Because the moment you choose, you have lost your total freedom, you are left with only a part. But if you remain choiceless, your freedom remains total. So there is only one thing which is totally free and that is choiceless awareness. Everything else is limited.

They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it's God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it's totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being's birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It's like the big graduation.

I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

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

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

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

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

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.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

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.

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

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

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

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.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

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.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

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

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist 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.