Top 1200 Victims Of War Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

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.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

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

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.

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.

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

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.

A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

I'm not going to allow inmates and officers to be the victims of violent people.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

In my view, Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I - but was the risk of renewed war worth forcing it to do so?

I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good guys beginning to act like the bad guys. And when I studied the history of wars, it seemed to me that that was the case. Athens vs. Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. The Athenians presumably the democratic state. The Spartans the totalitarian state. But as the war went on, the Athenians began to act like the Spartans. They began committing atrocities and cruelties. So I saw this as a characteristic of war, even so-called "good wars."

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

When you have violence, there's victims, which entertainment tends not to explore that as much.

The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!

History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore.

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.

It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

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.

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.

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.

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

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.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

I saw firsthand the toll that fraud can take on the victims and their families.

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

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

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

If we live in a society that is stuck in victimhood, we will have lots of victims.

Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.

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.

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.

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.

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

I look my victims in the eyes before I take their lunch money.

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war, everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars; they're not war experts.