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"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
Norman Schwarzkopf"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
Leo Tolstoy"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
Herbert Hoover"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
Herodotus"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."
Robert E. Lee"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
George Santayana"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
William Westmoreland"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
Sun Tzu"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. -Jean"
Paul Sartre"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Jeannette Rankin"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
Francois Fenelon"If we don't end war, war will end us."
H. G. Wells"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
John Adams"What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors."
Robert E. Lee"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
Blaise Pascal"War would end if the dead could return."
Stanley Baldwin"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
John Adams"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George S. Patton"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
George McGovern"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."
Omar N. Bradley"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
John F. Kennedy"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
Aldous Huxley"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
Robert E. Lee"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
Thomas Jefferson"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
John F. Kennedy"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
Douglas MacArthur"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
Sun Tzu"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"War is the science of destruction."
John Abbott"To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."
Sarah Palin"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
Thomas Jefferson"War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost."
Salvatore Quasimodo"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."
Karl Kraus"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
Ulysses S. Grant"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."
George Herbert"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."
Sun Tzu"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
Paul Valery"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
Niccolo Machiavelli"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead."
Omar N. Bradley"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
Benjamin Franklin"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"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."
Ernest Hemingway"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
George Washington"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
George S. Patton"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
William Tecumseh Sherman"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood."
Otto von Bismarck"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"
Joan Baez"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
Winston Churchill"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
Alexander Berkman"The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back."
Charles Hamilton Houston"Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
Ludwig von Mises"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
Ernest Hemingway"The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it."
John Randolph"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
Isaac Asimov"War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman"War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror."
Ludwig von Mises"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
George S. Patton"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Thomas Mann"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
Napoleon Bonaparte"When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death."
Thomas Hobbes"We are struggling with the global war on the truth. And if what we used to think of as the domain of the Soviets, the kind of celebration of lies and press as propaganda, that now we realize is not something that is unique to the Soviet state. It's within ourselves as well here in the West."
Craig Mazin"Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?"
Bianca Jagger"We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war."
Lal Bahadur Shastri"While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war."
John Yoo"I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war."
Robert Mueller"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
Ernest Hemingway"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
Ambrose Bierce"Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life."
Nam June Paik"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
Desiderius Erasmus"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."
Douglas MacArthur"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
Salvador Dali"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
Benjamin Franklin"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
Albert Einstein"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
George Orwell"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
Henry Kissinger"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."
Will Rogers"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
John Stuart Mill"If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence."
Donald Rumsfeld"I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins."
Shel Silverstein"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world."
Stephen Kinzer"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."
Elon Musk"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
Chuck Palahniuk"I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence."
Elfriede Jelinek"I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds."
Molly Ivins"If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA."
David Ignatius"Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood."
Jonathan Haidt"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism."
Stephen Ambrose"Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits."
Henry Giroux"There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war."
Shimon Peres"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash."
Fred Woodworth"The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully."
Charles Evans Hughes"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
George Orwell"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."
Napoleon Hill"Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation to fight against apartheid."
Cornel West"What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?"
Zbigniew Brzezinski"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
George Washington"The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it."
Murray Rothbard"The great object is that every man be armed."
Patrick Henry"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
Barbara W. Tuchman"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."
Sophocles"War is fear cloaked in courage."
William Westmoreland"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
Winston Churchill"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein"'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim."
Feisal Abdul Rauf"My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States."
Joy Harjo"Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant."
Bob Feller"The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged."
Ken Loach"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession."
Phyllis Schlafly"Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement."
Barack Obama"War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions."
Zbigniew Brzezinski"Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace."
Norman Finkelstein"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
George W. Bush"Our soldiers fought in the Korean War to push back communism. As a result of their effort and the effort of our allies, South Korea is free today."
Pierre Poilievre"Barack Obama commits war crimes - Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep a spotlight on war crimes, to keep track of the innocents killed... There is a major clash."
Cornel West"Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge."
Meir Kahane"In nuclear war all men are cremated equal."
Dexter Gordon"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
Marshall McLuhan"We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love."
Elton John"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"
Benjamin Spock"It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war."
Lester B. Pearson"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."
Martin Luther King, Jr."It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
Maya Lin"But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer."
Helen Thomas"We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering."
Jeremy Gilley"When you go to war, both sides lose totally."
Yoko Ono"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
Martin Luther"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling."
Stanley Kubrick"Having known war I know the value of peace. Having lived under government control I know the value of freedom. Having lived with hatred, terror and corruption I know the value of faith and forgiveness."
Phan Thi Kim Phuc"Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet."
John Updike"The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War."
Jurgen Habermas"There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."
Stephen Douglas"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."
Desiderius Erasmus"War is a defeat for humanity."
Pope John Paul II"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
Albert Pike"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
Henry David Thoreau"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
Martin Luther King, Jr."Conquered, we conquer."
Plautus"An army marches on its stomach."
Napoleon Bonaparte"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
Bertrand Russell"I have not yet begun to fight!"
John Paul Jones"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war."
John Bolton"At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did not count in a unipolar world. We disregarded Russia's opposition to NATO expansion, the Iraq War, and the U.S.-led military intervention in Serbia for the independence of Kosovo."
Bill Bradley"The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe."
Linda Chavez"People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance."
Otto Dix"War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations."
Stanley Hauerwas"He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war."
William Tecumseh Sherman"God bless and help all the victims and patriots of 9/11, from the families of Flight 93 passengers to those who were in the Pentagon and Twin Towers as well as others who have fought and presently fight the war on terror."
Chuck Norris"In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people."
Thurston Clarke"When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land."
Noam Chomsky"The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering."
Nick Harkaway"The chief incalculable in war is the human will."
B. H. Liddell Hart"War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. -Chiang Kai"
shek"Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face."
Jacques Chirac"The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting."
Richard M. Nixon"Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war."
Harvey Fierstein"Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'"
Bill Burr"You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace."
Geraldine Ferraro"The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation."
George McGovern"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
Isaac Asimov"It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it."
George McGovern"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
Ludwig von Mises"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
Mao Zedong"The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me."
Sebastian Junger"Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia."
Pope Benedict XVI"If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'"
Gilbert Gottfried"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
Barbara W. Tuchman"Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom."
Shehbaz Sharif"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition."
Fidel Castro"All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."
Noah Webster"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."
Karl Liebknecht"France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war."
Charles de Gaulle"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
Albert Einstein"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
Duke of Wellington"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."
Herbert V. Prochnow"War remains the decisive human failure."
John Kenneth Galbraith"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
Douglas MacArthur"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
Havelock Ellis"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
Euripides"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."
William Westmoreland"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost."
John Foster Dulles"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."
Michael Moore"Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate."
Francis Parker Yockey"On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack - as were the CIA and the rest of the world."
Alistair Horne"There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away."
Marcus Luttrell"Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful."
Ed Asner"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."
Bertolt Brecht"My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty."
Aung San Suu Kyi"During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war."
Ronald Kessler"The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons. -Chung Mong"
joon"The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades."
Vladimir Putin"My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand."
Hong Chau"The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam."
Barack Obama"No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well."
Sebastian Junger"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
William McKinley"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman"There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends."
Silvia Cartwright"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
Douglas MacArthur"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
Neville Chamberlain"Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion."
Norman Schwarzkopf"The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature. -Kim Jong"
un"To hold a pen is to be at war."
Voltaire"I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition."
Otto Hahn"We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life."
Doc Hastings"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
Ulysses S. Grant"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
Thomas Hobbes"I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service."
John F. Kerry"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. -Antoine de Saint"
Exupery"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."
Anatole Broyard"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense."
Sallust"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
Sun Tzu"It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi."
Terry Glavin"'Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies' is a piece that I did around the time that I was very frustrated and angry with the fact that the U.S., where I live, had decided to pull itself into another war. I was really angry."
Wangechi Mutu"Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield."
William T. Vollmann"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."
Benjamin Disraeli"I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned."
Sylvester Stallone"Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear."
Christina Baker Kline"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"
John Milton"The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again."
Helen Fisher"Football is like war. It's about taking territory."
Condoleezza Rice"I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any."
Thor Heyerdahl"I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents."
Suzanne Collins"I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters."
Chelsea Clinton"Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present."
Mikhail Gorbachev"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
Benjamin Franklin"I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya."
Scott Anderson"War is never a lasting solution for any problem."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"It is far easier to make war than peace."
Georges Clemenceau"Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America."
Bernie Sanders"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome."
Isabel Allende"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
Benito Mussolini"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
Larry Elder"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
James Baldwin"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
Ann Coulter"War is the greatest failure of mankind."
Aaron Huey"The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation."
Jonathan Larson"War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels."
Jon Anderson"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
Wendell Phillips"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
George Orwell"We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States."
Paul Wolfowitz"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
John F. Kennedy"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin"Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and war and recast it to serve the political ends of a man unworthy of the presidency."
Rick Wilson"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'."
Duke of Wellington"I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends."
Michael Buffer"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."
Tony Benn"Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice."
Noam Chomsky"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day."
Peter Maurer"People always make war when they say they love peace."
D. H. Lawrence"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
Thomas Hobbes"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
Oscar Wilde"Business is a combination of war and sport."
Andre Maurois"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."
Mahatma Gandhi"War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon."
Roger Waters"War is failure of diplomacy."
John Dingell"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
Baruch Spinoza"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."
William Hazlitt"My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model."
Arlen Specter"The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like."
Michael Badnarik"You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan."
Lupe Fiasco"The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective."
Henry Kissinger"To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle."
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu"The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there's the house of war."
Alex Jones"The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue."
Malala Yousafzai"War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest."
Ross Kemp"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"
George S. Patton"All warfare is based on deception."
Unknown"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
Thomas A. Edison"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"Sweat saves blood."
Erwin Rommel"We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began."
Black Kettle"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
Ernest Hemingway"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
David Friedman"Sports is like a war without the killing."
Ted Turner"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want."
Tom Cruise"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war."
Philip Roth"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
Paul Rodriguez"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."
Herman Kahn"The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."
George C. Marshall"The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits."
Clint Eastwood"But I'm a daughter of the American revolution, my grandpa fought in World War II, I have lots of family members who were in the military, and it really just was part of growing up for me."
Katie Pavlich"There's no question that jihad historically means war."
Pat Robertson"WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported."
Jemima Khan"War hath no fury like a non-combatant."
Charles Edward Montague"We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War. -Moon Jae"
in"War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war."
Smedley Butler"We make war that we may live in peace."
Aristotle"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
Smedley Butler"Winning the peace is harder than winning the war."
Xavier Becerra"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
Jimmy Carter"I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged."
Christopher Hitchens"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
George Orwell"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
Carly Simon"In time of peace prepare for war."
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."
Sun Tzu"The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation."
Clara Zetkin"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."
William Tecumseh Sherman"The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time."
Friedrich St. Florian"As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina."
Naomi Klein"Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult."
Carl von Clausewitz"It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society."
Nikki Sixx"War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose."
Marcus Luttrell"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."
Isoroku Yamamoto"The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?"
Hugo Chavez"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
Otto von Bismarck"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
Jeane Kirkpatrick"Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24."
David M. Shoup"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
Jean Giraudoux"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."
Martin Luther King, Jr."When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting."
Karl Marlantes"The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil."
Ted Nugent"I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing."
Jack Antonoff"There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'."
William Slim"I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go."
Keala Settle"Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II."
Adolf Galland"Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them."
T. E. Lawrence"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"In war there is no substitute for victory."
Douglas MacArthur"There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army."
H. R. McMaster"A hospital alone shows what war is."
Erich Maria Remarque"Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things."
Daryn Kagan"There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery."
Jon Krakauer"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."
Thomas Hardy"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."
William Tecumseh Sherman"The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain."
Thomas Friedman"The sinews of war are infinite money."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."
William Beveridge"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."
Winston Churchill"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
Omar N. Bradley"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."
Ludwig von Mises"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Albert Einstein"No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote."
Hillary Clinton"If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then."
John Linder"I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along."
Walter Cronkite"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
Thomas Aquinas"I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves."
Sebastian Junger"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
George Bernard Shaw"When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand."
Bruce Grobbelaar"In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty."
Seamus Heaney"For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American."
Amanda Foreman"The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts."
Rahm Emanuel"Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain."
Steve Erickson"Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed."
Josh Gad"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
John F. Kennedy"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people."
Marjane Satrapi"We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee"There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't."
Michael Cimino"During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically."
Ben Shapiro"The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell."
Fareed Zakaria"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
Jack Ma"If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle."
Richard Grenell"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."
Susan B. Anthony"It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job."
Chris Kyle"I would trade 20 white babies for an Asian baby. If I'm ever rich, I want a closet full of Asian babies. And I'll just pull them out whenever I'm feeling down, you know? All kinds. Korean ones. Chinese ones. Vietnamese - not so much. My dad was in the war, and I hold a grudge."
Tom Segura"Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves - their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles."
Khaled Hosseini"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television."
Lewis Thomas"A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty."
Charles B. Rangel"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."
Winston Churchill"Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better."
Chief Seattle"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
Albert Einstein"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."
George Orwell"The history of mankind is a history of war."
Mike Love"Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain."
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
Douglas MacArthur"After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history."
Hans Kung"A bad peace is even worse than war."
Tacitus"War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle."
Gilbert Parker"We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it."
Glennon Doyle Melton"The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble."
Joseph Rotblat"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
Barack Obama"People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them."
John Boyne"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."
E. W. Howe"Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk"I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job required him to travel, so we moved to Athens, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh and then went to Manchester during the Gulf War, moving back to Lahore closer to my father's retirement."
Fawad Khan"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."
Montesquieu"Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."
Stephen Hawking"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
Henry Kissinger"I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism."
P. D. James"I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it."
Harrison Ford"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."
Harry Emerson Fosdick"This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause."
James P. Hoffa"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."
William S. Burroughs"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz"A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster."
Noam Chomsky"No war is over until the enemy says it's over."
Jim Mattis"I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon."
Mandy Patinkin"Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other."
Ellen G. White"An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war."
Montesquieu"Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to."
William Golding"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."
David Goggins"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
Woody Allen"It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out."
Chuck Hagel"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
George Orwell"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
Solomon Short"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
Noam Chomsky"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
Carl von Clausewitz"The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters."
Jean Giraudoux"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
Otto von Bismarck"It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda."
Harry Browne"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
William Westmoreland"My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II."
Leonardo DiCaprio"As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed."
Gustav Stresemann"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."
Jimmy Carter"I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so."
Kevin Powers"Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy."
Noam Chomsky"Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness."
Jason Mraz"A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it."
Michael Baumgartner"It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war."
Dick Cheney"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
Charles Lamb"Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military."
Barack Obama"The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his 'Make America Great Again' cap. I would ask him, 'When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?'"
Tech N9ne"The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them."
Julian Treasure"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
David Goggins"War makes strange bedfellows."
Helen Thomas"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
Ambrose Bierce"Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before."
Thomas P.M. Barnett"How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?"
Gunter Grass"A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?"
Jesse Ventura"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives."
Homer Hickam"You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible."
Colin Powell"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."
Marvin Gaye"No one hates war like a soldier hates war."
Tommy Franks"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
Wilfred Owen"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
A. J. P. Taylor"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman"The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks."
Hideki Tojo"I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine."
Nostradamus"I covered the White House during the Bush years when Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan and Dana Perino were at the podium. We thought those were, at times, crazy press briefings, asking questions about major events like the Iraq War and the leaking of Valerie Plame's name and the outing of her as a CIA operative."
Dana Bash"I think there should be holy war against yoga classes."
Werner Herzog"You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women."
Lindsey Graham"I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football."
Hank Williams Jr."I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
Martin Luther King, Jr."I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."
George Porter"Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes."
Warren Farrell"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
Thomas Merton"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
Otto von Bismarck"No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy."
Karen DeCrow"The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't."
Arthur L. Herman"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
Donald Rumsfeld"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
H. L. Mencken"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."
Georges Clemenceau"The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."
Hirohito"The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along."
Richard Armitage"The war against terrorism is terrorism."
Woody Harrelson"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
Richard M. Nixon"Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail."
Sheri L. Dew"I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war."
George Galloway"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
William Tecumseh Sherman"My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation."
Sheikh Hasina"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
Edmund Spenser"We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness."
Michio Kaku"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."
Kin Hubbard"One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone."
Jacques Chirac"Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good."
Herman Wouk"You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime."
William C. Kirby"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."
George W. Bush"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."
Bernie Sanders"The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest."
Ben Bernanke"I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil war. I remember my mom sitting in front of television throughout the day reading tickers which had name of the martyrs."
Anushka Sharma"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism."
Noam Chomsky"European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion."
Virginia Postrel"Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides."
Noah Feldman"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
Duke of Wellington"'Twenty One Pilots' is a play by Arthur Miller, who also wrote 'All My Sons.' It's about a guy who's creating and developing parts for airplanes in war time, when it comes to his attention that some of these parts were faulty."
Josh Dun"The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan."
Nancy Pelosi"If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government."
Ambrose Burnside"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war."
James Longstreet"Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb"The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda."
John Yoo"In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda."
Charles Lindbergh"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
Winston Churchill"There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with."
Colin Powell"I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism."
John Doolittle"Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future."
Joe Baca"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."
Jodie Foster"War is what happens when language fails."
Margaret Atwood"The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed."
Billy Graham"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
Herbert Hoover"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
Stefan Zweig"A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical."
Conrad Black"I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek to become richer than others, find joy in defeating others at sports, and choose someone of the opposite gender based on their appearance."
Yoko Taro"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
Desiderius Erasmus"In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today."
Isabel Allende"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."
Georges Clemenceau"A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights."
Goran Persson"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Maria Montessori"War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back."
Abiy Ahmed"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."
Sun Tzu"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
Friedrich Nietzsche"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
Arthur Koestler"America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios."
Herbert Hoover"War is like love; it always finds a way."
Bertolt Brecht"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."
Ross Perot"When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you."
Ernest Hemingway"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."
George Wald"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came."
Jefferson Davis"Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river."
Nostradamus"The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation."
Joe Biden"When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace."
Jimmy Carter"Quickness is the essence of the war."
Sun Tzu"Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren't shy about what they don't like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule of law. They really dislike the police, and certainly get the credit for the war between black men and police."
Milo Yiannopoulos"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives."
Joseph Rotblat"Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal."
Curtis LeMay"The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched."
Noam Chomsky"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
Barbara Kingsolver"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."
Billy Graham"My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War."
Mark Rylance"If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly."
Bernard Law Montgomery"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."
John F. Kennedy