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Quotes About War

Wars can destroy everything but hope!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.
~ Melina Marchetta
The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.
~ Merrill McPeak
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
~ Michael Apted
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
~ Michael Baumgartner
Sending our youth to war is wrong.
~ Michael Berryman
Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.
~ Michael Demon Calce
Those who start wars, never fight them, And those who fight wars, they never like them...
~ Michael Franti
I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
~ Michael Hastings
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
~ Michael Hastings
After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.
~ Michael Hastings
All war aims for impunity.
~ Michael Ignatieff
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
~ Michael Ignatieff
Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.
~ Michael Moore
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.
~ Michael Morpurgo
It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
~ Michael Morpurgo
In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.
~ Michael Mullen
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.
~ Michael Novak
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and
~ Michael O'Brien
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
~ Michael Ondaatje
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.
~ Michael Pollan
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
~ Will Rogers