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Quotes About War

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.
~ John F. Kerry
You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.
~ Joy Browne
The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.
~ Mairead Corrigan
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
~ Mark Kennedy
The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
~ Mark Shields
What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.
~ Paul Haggis
This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.
~ Rand Paul
We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.
~ Rand Paul
Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
~ Ron Wyden
The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.
~ Tim Ryan
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
~ William Broyles, Jr.
I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.
~ Yanar Mohammed
She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.
~ Nikki Rowe
Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.
~ Debasish Mridha
The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.
~ Tony Harrison
Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
~ Cordell Hull
I'm sorry to say this, but Putin is spreading lies. He is doing this with the goal of removing Stalin's Russia responsibility for starting the war jointly with Nazi Germany. I assumed he is ashamed of that.
~ Andrzej Duda
For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
~ Forest Whitaker