Quotes About Belief

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.