Quotes About War

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Hadji Murat, Tolstoy's posthumous novella recounting the difficulties of maintaining imperial control in the face of Muslim terrorism, could not seem prophetic to Americans for decades. For a long time, his warnings about making war humane were inapplicable as

An unlawful war can't make lawful captives.

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war

Beliefs in scarcity help create your wars and the taking of more than is needed from the Earth. If everyone could create the abundance that is his or her natural birthright, you would have fewer reasons for war or to harm the Earth. Your new beliefs will draw to you many new ideas about ways to create abundance for everyone, ways you have not even conceived of yet that tap into sunlight and other unlimited resources.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

We have long since made it clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

I think, though, that another shame of war is that when it's over, a soldier don't get to leave it behind where he fought it. He's gotta carry it right back home with him, in his head, and in his heart.

I let my gaze sink to the darken ground. The moon pick out the bitty grass, can see a balden dandelion gray with night. And now first consider what become of Pasha's missing teeth. Children can lose teeth from hunger. Teeth bash out in war. No glad adventure lead to gappen teeth.

Then, in this hour stolen from the war, our love be worse beyond. We cling together with no words, until our scary silence be another nakedness.

And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said. Weren't those things the costs of war, too?

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.

You couldn't see the soldiers as people. They were icons.