Quotes About War

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

Barak Obama initially opposed [war in Libia].

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.