Quotes About War

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

Even my momma asked what I'mma do. Decisions, decisions/ In case this is war, then I load up on all ammunition/ If a n----a want problems, my trigger's on auto.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.