Top 1200 Victims Of War Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

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.

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

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

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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."

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

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.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

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.

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.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by 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.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.