Quotes About War

I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.

Once the war started, my grandfather went to England, where he was under house arrest on the Isle of Man, and then to Ireland, but not to Germany. In no way did he, or my grandmother for that matter, ever support either the war or the Holocaust.

Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

Israel has a right to defend itself.

We defeated communist Japan.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.

Sometimes I think that if we have to go back, then it certainly won't be to Jerusalem. Not to the Jerusalem beset with racism that we left at the height of the last Gaza war.

Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.

Jihad is the Afghan bling.

I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

I was in high school and 9/11 happened. My boyfriend joined the army and I was extremely disgusted with this war fervour.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States. Any American who did that should know well that they in fact are part of an enemy... and that the U.S. will do anything that is possible to destroy that enemy to save American lives.

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who's taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How

Pace non trovo e non ho da far guerra.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.