Quotes About Wars

but I also asked why they didn't chase their dreams. How many rock stars just settled for accountancy? How many astronauts grew up to be psychologists? Other kids were playing Mafia Wars, we were taking down the fucking Mafia and no it wasn't normal. It wasn't even close.

Rail as we might against fracking and wars that protect our oil supply, we support those things with our gas furnaces, cars, and taxes. Grieve

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.

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

One main reason the US has been able to prevent its currency and economy from collapsing, despite the latest wars, huge debt and massive currency printing, is because the dollar is the de-facto standard for international trade and reserve currency.

Desire made fools of us all, did it not? What was more controlling than unconsummated desire? What but wanting sent men on fatal quests or led them to begin senseless wars? What else led to thievery or murder? It wasn't desire that was the enemy, but the inability to assuage it. Desire was only an emotion. It was no more evil than love.

The Irish are a merry race and surely they are mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad." The

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

Human nature never changes. Therefore, the stock market never changes. Only the faces, the pockets, the suckers, and the manipulators, the wars, the disasters and the technologies change. The market itself never changes. How can it? Human nature never changes, and human nature runs the market—not reason, not economics, and certainly not logic. It is our human emotions that drive the market, as they do most other things on this planet. —Jesse Livermore (1940)

Bannon averred: "When you take out all the never-Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us in all these wars … it's not a deep bench.

Fair or no, immigration is considered in the context of economic scarcity, fear of terrorism, wars and geopolitical conflicts, which may be incipient stages of informal proxy wars.

the family feuds of the nobles were beyond control. Revenge was regarded rather as an act of private justice than as a crime. The remotest members of a clan were bound by the obligations of the vendetta, which had its special home in Italy. Its history in the Middle Ages is largely one of family feuds that turned into wars. These ended either by the extermination of one party or by the intervention of the emperor or the church, imposing reconciliation and indemnities.

The crusades were a great historical novelty; they were the first wars fought for an ideal. Naturally the ideal was promptly corrupted and falsified. But the fact remains that the crusades were conceived as a service to the Christian God, and the crusaders thought themselves, at least intermittently, the consecrated servants of holy purpose. The crusades were many things, but originally they were a beautiful, noble idea.

There was evidently a party of outright pacifists in the church. In 1054, another council declared: "A Christian who slays another Christian sheds the blood of Christ." But pacifism presented too many problems in a wicked world. Gregory VII often quoted with approval Jeremiah: "Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood." Before long, the church itself was the instigator of political wars, and its enemies were those who cried for peace.

The history of American wars is littered with propaganda, falsehoods, a compliant media, the manipulation of patriotic sentiment—everything we've seen recently, we've seen before. Time and again.

England won her territories not by wars or armies, but by trade and commerce. China is following in the same footsteps.

To claim that the world has known only two world wars is to ignore the history of past generations and civilizations.

From now on, the summons to repentance, and the announcement of God's kingdom on earth as in heaven, come not through wars, earthquakes, famines or plagues. (Or domestic accidents.) They come through Jesus.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the Continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.

God-the-man has more important matters in his head: wars, catastrophes, conquests, and distant journeys … Women take care of the food.

Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913); Substitute money (fiat) makes Absolute States & Wars (Post-1913)