Quotes About Wars
I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets.
~ Mona Eltahawy
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I think that five, 10, 50 years down the road, we'll be honoring President Barack Obama for ending two wars, stopping the economic hemorrhage and, yes, reducing the number of uninsured. And the polls won't matter.
~ Donna Brazile
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Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
~ Camille Paglia
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When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
~ David E. Sanger
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Shine Bright Like The Star Wars Jedi You Are.
~ Stephen Richards
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ideology was like a set of enormous wheels at the back of the stage, turning and setting in motion wars, revolutions, reforms. The wheels of immunology turn without having any effect upon History.
~ Milan Kundera
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Guerrillas by themselves cannot win wars, not in the military sense. They can keep their enemies from winning; they can hope that in time their strength will increase to the point where they can put orthodox armies in the field to confront and defeat their enemies in conventional battles; they can hope to so wear down, annoy, exasperate their foes that they will wring concessions from them; or they can hope for foreign intervention.
~ Byron Farwell
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
~ Carl Sagan
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They wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilization at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behavior which were anathema to them.
~ Katharine Burdekin
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Only a debt-backed system of paper money could finance the great wars, the social improvements and the fevered dreams of the 20th century.
~ Brian Maher
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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
~ Bruce Jackson
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In all psychological wars, it's never over,, there's just this day, this time, and a hesitant belief in your ability to change. It is not an arena where the unsure should go looking for absolutes and there are no permanent victories. It is about a living change, filled with the insecurities , the chaos, of our own personalities, and is always one step up, two steps back.
~ Bruce Springsteen
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I've had my share of pain the waves and wars. Add this to the total. Bring the trial on.
~ Homer
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Later, while my mother reclines, angry and exhausted, I recede into primal speculation. What kind of being is this? Is big John Cairncross our envoy to the future, the form of a man to end wars, rapine and enslavement and stand equal and caring with the women of the world? Or will he be trampled into oblivion by brutes? We shall find out.
~ Ian Mcewan
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As the God of the ancient Near East stemmed from ideas of supernaturalism, our concept of a modern God could stem from modern ideas divorced from supernaturalism. [...] A natural God need not intervene in human history, nor be the cause for religious wars such as witnessed through human history.
~ Steven J. Dick
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Ron DeSantis is right: Republicans must aggressively fight back in the culture wars. They didn't start the wars, but they have an obligation not to shy away from confrontation on social issues.
~ Miranda Devine
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Electric cars have an easy minimum range of 100 miles and a typical range of closer to 200 miles. And the technology is just getting started. We fight wars all over the world for oil, and we don't even need it. That, in and of itself, is insane.
~ Thom Hartmann
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For the great Gaels of Ireland," wrote G. K. Chesterton, Are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
~ Thomas Cahill
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We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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Even when the British took part in these wars, they fought on other people's territory or at sea.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars.
~ Katherine Stewart
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Hidden within the main conflict were dozens of other, more local wars, which had different flavours and different motivations in each country and each region.
~ Keith Lowe
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