Quotes About War

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.