Quotes About War

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the most important issue: protecting civilians in this crazy war.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.