Quotes About War

If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will be a matter of having dispensed with the dogma of faith. If our tribalism is ever to give way to an extended moral identity, our religious beliefs can no longer be sheltered from the tides of genuine inquiry and genuine criticism. It is time we realized that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil.

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

We have to have a strong law enforcement in America. So we do not go abroad in the search of war, we really are searching for peace, but it is peace through strength.

I'm not sure if [Hillary Clinton] means it or not. But she says no boots on the ground. She has taken a tremendous - I mean, that's really giving strength to the enemy.

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

Alas, madame! exclaimed Athos, to-day love is like war--the breastplate is becoming useless.

If they do not bring peace, we shall give them death.

Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?

Lors de la retraite des Napolitains, sa sÅ"ur a été violée par les soldats, qui lui ont ensuite coupé la tête et ont laissé dans la rue le corps nu et la tête coupée. Le corps et la tête ont été trouvés et pieusement recueillis par les carabiniers génois.

Treville understood admirably the war method of that period, in which he who could not live at the expense of the enemy must live at the expense of his compatriots.

War is a distraction: we gain everything by it; we can only lose one thing by it—life—then so much the worse!

It was worth while, truly," added the young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country

The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.

The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.