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Quotes About Wars

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.
~ Linda Colley
They think they're really sticking it to you, but they're being—herded. Into the service of agendas they'd never support in a thousand years, if they only knew. And they're dedicated, Daniel. They're ferocious. They fight your wars with a passion you could never buy and never coerce, because they're doing it out of pure ideology.
~ Peter Watts
PLATE I: THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDERS PLATE II: THE EPOCHAL WARS PLATE III: THE INTERNATIONAL ORDERS PLATE IV: BASES FOR LEGITIMACY PLATE V: HISTORIC, STRATEGIC, AND CONSTITUTIONAL INNOVATIONS
~ Philip Bobbitt
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
This—Bob was saying—was the straightforward solution to the greatest mystery of all: Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths.
~ Jon Ronson
Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths. That part of the brain that doesn't function right.
~ Jon Ronson
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
~ Joseph Campbell
Nevertheless, every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
~ Joseph Campbell
At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities. Hundred-year wars were fought over whether Jesus was human in divine form or divine in human form. Belief is murderous.
~ Rabih Alameddine
At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities. Hundred-year wars were fought over whether Jesus was human in divine form or divine in human form. Belief is murderous. After
~ Rabih Alameddine
Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren't so many human victims.
~ Scott Gottlieb
A lot of times people get caught up in bidding wars, and will go way over what their price needs to be because they love the house so much.
~ Scott McGillivray
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
~ Ray Bradbury
Poetry keeps the door open to awe and ensures that we will find our way through the broken heart field of wars, losses and betrayals to understanding, compassion and gathering together.
~ Joy Harjo
The U.S. is spending trillions of dollars on military for wars but they can't give honest Haitian leaders money to develope Haiti, and yet they said they love Haiti.
~ Werley Nortreus
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
~ Daniel Pipes
The world once had real problems with heretics splitting the Church and infidels at the gates of Vienna. What real benefit was the discovery of America?" "None to the inhabitants thereof," Cannon admitted. "And its mineral wealth wrecked half the economies of Europe and financed endless wars." "In the end was it good for the world? You cannot price knowledge you haven't gained yet.
~ Dave Duncan
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
~ James Lee Burke
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
~ James Lee Burke
Moff Tarkin sends his regards.
~ James Luceno
When will we see that the depravity of the human heart is not most clearly on display in the gay pride parade or at the abortion clinic? The greatest failures in human experience are not seen in the activist atheist rallying unbelief or the scorning skeptic ridiculing Jesus Christ, or the senseless wars, or baffling famines. The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart
~ James MacDonald
Truth Is a Lonely Warrior contends that Satan influences global events, and that among his instruments is a powerful organization of men on Earth. This organization has fomented many wars, revolutions and other cataclysms of the past several centuries. Their ultimate goal: establish a world government run by Satan's puppet – a figure the Bible calls "the beast" or "Antichrist.
~ James Perloff
You want to know what Classics are?" said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. "I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos." A sententious and vulgar statement, certainly, but like many such gnomic vulgarities, it also contains a tiny splinter of truth.)
~ Donna Tartt
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
~ Douglas Adams