Quotes About War

Soon after I graduated from Columbia University grad school, the war in Iraq started. I was a young freelance journalist with no experience in conflict zones but I wanted to be close to it, so I moved to Syria.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

Soldiers, strike the foe in the face!

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

All is fair in love and war.

In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.

For what we do training, as a fighter, you have to be able to flip that switch where you turn into that savage, that guy that's prepared to go to war.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.