Quotes About War

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.

Our fundamental goal in getting involved in Bosnia in the summer of 1995 was to end the war. Richard Holbrooke's fundamental goal was to negotiate a peace: a peace that was sustaining and self-sustaining over the long term.

In 1939, a newspaper ran a competition for the first load of boys off to war to pick their favourite singer. They chose me from my radio broadcasts. That's when I became known as the 'forces' sweetheart.'

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

My parents sent me to Switzerland on a Kindertransport.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

I never thought that the child who was a famous symbol of war would one day be invited to become a symbol of peace.

We hope that the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will help us to promote Seoul as a symbol of peace beyond war and division in order to attract global attention to peace on the Korean Peninsula.

It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.

Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

I recognise fully why people wear poppies, I totally respect everyone's right to do so and I have total sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to conflict.

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

The civil war in Syria is complex and devastating.

To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.

You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.