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Quotes About War

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
~ Jimmy Doolittle
Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.
~ John Pilger
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
~ Joseph Stalin
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
~ Robert Capa
The war brought out all the art in me.
~ Horace Pippin
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
~ Moliere
Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.
~ Wilfred Owen
Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?
~ Paul Craig Roberts
I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.
~ Mike Pence
We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.
~ Joseph Lowery
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
~ John Donne
Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
~ Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods
~ Ban Ki-moon
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
~ George S. Patton
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
~ Eugene McCarthy
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!
~ Heinrich von Treitschke
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.
~ Robert McNamara
War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.
~ Stan Goff
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
~ Walter Mosley
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.
~ David Cross
The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
~ Clement Attlee
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war
~ Huey Long
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson