Top 1200 War Horse Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

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 have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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

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.

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.

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

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

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.

Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

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.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

The most horrible sort of war is civil 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.

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

My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to that than the era in which he died. He was born in 1891, no television, no phones, barely any electricity. He wrote a book to all of us that was really just a compilation of the letters that he had written over the years to my grandmother when they were courting, in the horse and buggy era. Everybody said, "When did you have time to do this?" Relating their own lives to his. He said, "What do you mean, when did I have time? This is all we did." There was no TV, none of that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

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

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

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.

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

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.

Belligerents always abolish war after a 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.