Quotes About War

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war