Quotes About War

If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.

I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

The first boots on the ground in Afghanistan were my colleagues.

When I was in college, the Kargil War had just happened, and I remember going with my friends on a bike to collect empty shells.

Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.

In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son of a colonel in the Army of the Confederacy.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

The main cause of food security in Africa is war and conflict.