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Quotes About War

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well
~ W. S. Gilbert
Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.
~ Du Fu
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
~ James Dickey
Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.
~ Randy Travis
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
~ Albert Einstein
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
~ Golda Meir
A bad peace is even worse than war.
~ Tacitus
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
~ William C. Westmoreland
It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
~ M.M. Kaye
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate
~ Francis Parker Yockey
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
~ Alice Walker
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
~ Pablo Picasso
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
~ Andrew Taylor Still
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.
~ Dexter Gordon
War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
~ Ludwig von Mises
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.
~ Francois Hollande
People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
~ Lee Krasner
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
~ Tony Blair
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
~ Julian Casablancas