Top 1200 Trojan War Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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.

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.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

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

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

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

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

There is no war between Muslims and Americans. There is no war between Americans and the poor people in the world. There is only a war between people on the top who have their own agenda.

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.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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.

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

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.

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.

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

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.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

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

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

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than 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.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

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

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

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

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

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

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

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

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

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 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.

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.

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

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.

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

The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.

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

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

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.

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."

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

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.

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.