Quotes About War

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

The media that's having this hysterical reaction to James Mattis retiring is the same media in many cases, the same politicians in many cases, who cheered our nation into a war in Iraq that turned out to be a catastrophe.

I read a lot of war literature.

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war.

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.

You have these people that fight wars for their country, and then they come home and they need to attend to their mental health, and they can't get a job. That's a real thing.

We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.

It's definitely clear, when you're playing a game like 'PUBG,' there's this realistic warzone feel that they're going to get; there's a little bit of blood - no gore - and you get that 'Call of Duty' war feeling.

'The Diary of Anne Frank' gets pretty dark toward the end. But there are some comic moments in the early part of the play. Anne was a goofball at times.

I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP 'War on Women.'

Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.