Quotes About War

after watching Hitler return from Munich in the evening of 30 June: 'Depend on it, it is precisely this Hitler going on his way over heaps of bodies, whom they [the generals] have yearned for in their deepest heart of hearts.'83

whoever today still doubts the real existence of demonic powers has widely misunderstood the metaphysical background to this war.

Few things in war can be as costly as doctrinal rigidity.

Worse than Munich with worse than Chamberlain!

I am asking whether Christianity, in its most sublime and revolutionary state, always demands an act of betrayal from the Faithful. In short, is Christianity, at its most radical, always marked by a kiss, forever forsaking itself, eternally at war with its own manifestation.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!!!

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Chance – invisible, furtive, and silent – is the vast canvas upon which all the rest of war is painted. Skill, courage, ruse, character, the elements of nature, technology and all the other components of war all operate against the backdrop of chance. Again and again, chance has raised up and brought down empires, snatched laurels from one hand to throw to another, and destroyed the most finely wrought plans.

External war often played an important role in increasing or sustaining cooperation among the elites, as well as cooperation between the elites, the state, and sometimes even commoners. During integrative phases, governments in collaboration with the elites often used external war to bring about periods of national consolidation. Additionally, successful wars of conquest yielded abundant rewards to be shared between the state and the elites.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

All Burundians we spoke to told us they have been materially hurt by the war. The litany of theft and destruction, of forced migration, of education years lost, and of family members and friends killed, is unending. Almost nobody, it seems, whether rural or urban, rich or poor, has not seen their meager assets depleted if not eradicated entirely by the war.

Northern Kentucky University's criminal sociologist J. Robert Lilly, looked closely at the statistics of wartime rapes committed by American GI's serving in Britain, France and Germany. To everyone's horror, Lilly reported that American liberators raped 14,000 to 17,000 women between 1942 and 1945 in those 3 European countries alone.

And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who've never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?

YOU CANNOT PREVENT AND PREPARE FOR WAR AT THE SAME TIME —Albert Einstein

How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

Millones de personas en el mundo quieren el socialismo, pero no desean pasar por la tragedia de una guerra civil para alcanzarlo» me dijo en una entrevista en 1972.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Dört sene vard?r ki bir harbi umumi ç?km?? olup milyonlarca insan birbirini telef etmektedir. Tarihi be?eri dolduran bütün muharebeler, benli?ini öldürmesini bilmeyen insan?n bir gaye u?runa ölmesini ö?renmesi için Cenab?hakk?n ana verdi?i kanl? derslere benzer.

Castle Heterodyne: It seems the Lady Heterodyne … would prefer you alive . Oh well, all of the masters had their little quirks … Gil: …and she really thinks I'm going to just wander out into the middle of a battlefield ? Sleipnir: Oh? And didn't you do just that the other day? Big army of war machines? You with a walking stick ? Ring any bells? Gil: … Once . I did that once . Sleipnir: Maybe you just haven't had another chance.

But you're such close neighbors, and you've been at war for HOW long?" "Oh, a really good war -- you don't want to waste it on STRANGERS!

It's always the old to lead us to the wars,Always the young to fall.

Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason, but I ain't marching anymore.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun Tell me is it worth it all For I stole California from the Mexican land Fought in the bloody Civil War Yes I even killed my brothers And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore