Quotes About War

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

We still seek no wider war.

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.