Top 1200 Victims Of War Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.

We fought a war where the American people went to war to end the scourge of Nazism across this country and I'm very thankful for that because it's evil and its vile.

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start.

'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of the First World War, and anti-war writing in general, is in there.

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.

There are no victims in the universe, only creators. The Masters who have walked this planet all knew this.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.

I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?

Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.

I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War, mostly we think of Red Cross nurses, but here I was reading about women serving as front-line soldiers, women serving as war journalists . . . and women who worked undercover as spies.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

Ever since 9/11, I found myself interested in chronicling the war and the war on terror and the way that this giant machinery was affecting individuals.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war.

Imprisoned by its war on terror framework, the Bush administration supported Israel in a disastrous war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.

We were innocent victims. (Angelia) Yeah, and I’m the tooth fairy. (Bride)

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.