Quotes About War

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.