Top 1200 War With Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.