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Quotes About War

I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended
~ Yakubu Gowon
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.
~ George H. W. Bush
There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.
~ John Pilger
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.
~ Rupert Brooke
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
~ Robert E. Lee
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
~ Percival Lowell
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
~ George C. Marshall
We can't win a war, but we can win an election.
~ Nelson Mandela
I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.
~ Daniel Tosh
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.
~ Cornell Capa
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
~ Bob Graham
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
~ Francois Rabelais
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
~ Adolf Hitler
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
~ George Grosz
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
~ Etgar Keret
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.
~ Robert M. Gates
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
~ Benito Mussolini
As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.
~ Ed Asner
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.
~ H. G. Wells
A great country can have no such thing as a little war.
~ Duke of Wellington
But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
~ Martin Luther