Quotes About War

Anything that involves action, be it war or reasoning, is false; and anything that involves abdication is false too.

As guerras e as revoluções — há sempre uma ou outra em curso — chegam, na leitura dos seus efeitos, a causar não horror mas tédio.

We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]

Churchill didn't dance around the Nazis; he called it fascism.

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

Very few people choose war. They choose selfishness and the result was war.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

I'm very anxious. If you're going to fight the best fighters, you have to be prepared for a war, a highly-anticipated fight.

I've been fighting since I was 15. I know what war is.

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever.