Quotes About War

Luxemburg saw this betrayal as evidence of the fundamental moral and political bankruptcy of the liberal establishment in a capitalist society. By the time the war was over, eleven million soldiers on all sides, most of them working-class men, were dead. Capitalists, who had grown rich from the slaughter, had nothing to fear now from the working class. They had fed them to the mouths of machine guns.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

I don't have an end game. Being a celestial being, I live for the moment to fight the Great War, and that is to light the darkness.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Matt Brown did exactly what he said he was going to do. He kicked my butt. But it was a war. I would love to do it again. Matt Brown's a good dude and a great fighter. He's made it up to the top and man, he's a monster.

After the war, my father, Bernard, left the Army Air Forces to fly for Trans World Airlines. But after I was born, he retired from commercial flying to be with my mother, Anne, and me. I was born in Kansas City, Mo., but we left when I was 6 months old.

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.

Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.

In short, Europe and the world were on the brink of a catastrophic war because neither friend nor foe believed that Britain and France had national honor.

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.