Quotes About War

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

All oppression creates a state of war.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

Russia isn't going to start a war. They can't afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.