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Quotes About War

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
~ Max Hastings
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
~ Cofer Black
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
~ Tom DeLay
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
~ John Shebbeare
Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
~ George McGovern
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
~ Joseph Goebbels
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
~ Satish Kumar
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.
~ Bernard Law Montgomery
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
~ James Nachtwey
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
~ Aristotle
I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
~ Claudia Christian
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.
~ Tatjana Soli
Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.
~ Luisa Morgantini
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
~ Robert Capa
Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.
~ Zakk Wylde
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
~ Stephen A. Douglas
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
~ Peter Ustinov
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
~ Abbie Hoffman
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
~ Bill Ayers