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Quotes About War

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.
~ David Corn
What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.
~ Doug Rice
Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
~ Edmund Spenser
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
~ Ernest Hemingway
How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
~ Ernst Toller
No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
~ Patrick Ness
I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.
~ John F. Kerry
I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.
~ John F. Kerry
No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
~ Joseph Straus
I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.
~ Mark Dayton
A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
~ Frederick William Robertson
but nothing serious happened until July 28, 1942, when Jones went into the studio to record an amusing anti-Nazi war ditty, Der Fuehrer's Face. Originally intended for the Walt Disney cartoon, Donald Duck in Axis Land, this became in Jones's hands a musical riot, rocketing the group to national stardom in less than a month. It demolished Hitler's claims to genetic superiority and established the raspberry as a respectable part of American radio.
~ John Dunning
Furthermore, if the acquisitive impulse (euphemistically called "market forces") is not controlled, inequities in the distribution of food and other goods that do remain may deepen, giving rise to potential chaos and war without limits.
~ John E. Mack
A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime." Stoner
~ John E. Williams
Una guerra no sólo mata a unos cuantos miles o a unos cuantos cientos de miles de jóvenes. Mata algo en la gente que no puede recuperarse nunca. Y si alguien pasa por suficientes guerras, pronto todo lo que queda es el bruto, la criatura que nosotros —usted y yo, y otros como nosotros— han sacado del fango».
~ John Edward Williams
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
~ John Eldredge
Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.
~ John Eliot Gardiner
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country… Life is unfair.
~ John F. Kennedy
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America—there are no "white" or "colored" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
~ John F. Kennedy
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
~ John F. Kennedy