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Quotes About World

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.
~ Omar N. Bradley
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
~ Irene Khan
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.
~ Norman Thomas
The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.
~ Bette Davis
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
~ Etgar Keret
We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
~ Daniel Quinn
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.
~ Mao Zedong
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
~ Bernard Baruch
Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world
~ Hunter S. Thompson
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
~ Victor Cousin
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
~ Stuart Chase
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
~ Henry Adams
The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.
~ Widad Akreyi
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
~ Roger Nash Baldwin
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
~ Andre Dubus
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
~ J. C. Ryle
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
~ Winston Churchill
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Military men are the scourges of the world.
~ Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'eau
It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
~ Bertrand Russell
We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
~ John F. Kennedy
My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.
~ Janine di Giovanni
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
~ John Eldredge
As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips