Quotes About War

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime and by their supporters in Iran and in Russia.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.