Quotes About War

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object