Quotes About War

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.