Quotes About War

Most Americans believed that winning two European wars in a single generation was more than should be required of American troops,

He felt as though every molecule in his body were shaking. Evil was on the march, and though everyone around him seemed bound and determined not to believe it, there was no question in his mind the Nazis were coming for them, for the people of France, all of them, with all their murderous fury, and he desperately feared the bloodbath that was coming with the jackboots and the broken cross.

She'd come to find civil administration more interesting than war. It's certainly more complicated.

I don't want to win the battle, Dana. I want to take the field, win the war. When I make love to you in this bed, it's going to be because you've accepted you're with the man and the Master you want for the rest of your life.

Play is battle and battle is play.

Minden hÅ'stett forrása a háború, a legbalgább dolog a világon.

In nearly all the nations of Europe, a powerful, hostile government is growing, and is at war with all the others, and sometimes oppresses the people in dreadful ways: It is Jewry

At the start of the Second World War, the English poet W. H. Auden—when he looked out over the new technologies of destruction that had been created by humans—warned: "We must love one another, or die.

I had to read through these files several times before I realized the significance of this accusation. At the start of the drug war, the man who launched the drug crackdown in California did it because he was paid to—by the drug dealers themselves. They wanted the drug war. They wanted it so badly, they would pay to speed it up.

right at the start of the drug war, gangsters supported prohibition, even bribing Harry Anslinger's agents to impose it more rapidly. Now, at the end of the drug war, they were violently intimidating people who wanted to end prohibition. What, I wondered to myself, does this reveal about who really benefits from this war?

Mexico is not deciding this policy . . . This war, this criminalization strategy, is imposed by the U.S. government.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

I hate it when they say, ?He gave his life for his country.? They don?t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.