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Quotes About War

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
~ Douglas MacArthur
All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.
~ Reginald Farrer
As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.
~ Edward Kennedy
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.
~ Dana Gould
Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.
~ Johnny Cash
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused
~ Fritz Kreisler
Peace is more difficult than war.
~ Aristotle
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
~ Wendell Berry
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
~ Christopher Meloni
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
~ William H. Seward
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
~ Townsend Harris
A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.
~ Seth
War is good business Invest your son
~ Allen Ginsberg
Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.
~ Arundhati Roy
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
~ Caroline Glick
War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
~ John Eldredge
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
~ Adrien Brody
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
~ Virginia Foxx
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.
~ Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.
~ Bill O'Reilly
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.
~ Edward Gibbon
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
~ Neil Young