Quotes About War

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

Osama bin Laden is gone. The war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is coming to a close.

If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated.

If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary.

Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

You can't bomb a people just in case.

When those four bombs fell, I was in the middle and I should have died.

In Israel, you see strong borders as the best way to ensure peace, while in Europe, people see it as a cause of war.

When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time at home because of the war. We couldn't go out and play or go to school. Boredom was a big part of my life.

I'm really bothered by questions of humanity, questions of war, questions of slavery.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

'Baahubali' team is not after numbers. If we would have been number guys, we would have never made a film with such a huge budget. We just wanted to make the biggest war film of this country, but what it has achieved is amazing.

I know what it's like to feel the fear of battle. To be constantly looking over my shoulder and thinking every sound might be a bomb or a bullet. When I served in Afghanistan in 2009 I felt that fear, but I made a choice to serve in the army and I knew I could come home to safety at the end of my tour.

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan... to using a bed pan, and I can't even put my own socks on - that was hard to kind of suck it up.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

I remember June 8, 1972. I saw the airplane. And it's so loud, so close to me. Suddenly, the fire everywhere around me. The fire burned off my clothes. And I saw my arm got burned with the fire. I thought, oh, my goodness, I get burned. People will see me different way.