Quotes About War

Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

I can stand out the war with any man.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.