Quotes About War

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and Tipper [Gore] leading the charge!

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

Israel is run by war criminals...

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.