Quotes About War

'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.

Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.

I did go to the Alamo. Fascinating. A lot of details and nuances to the Alamo that are impressive.

Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

I'm not saying anyone should go to nuclear war with Russia. What we should do is contain them and show them that there are consequences if they do terrible things, which is what sanctions are all about.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

I don't only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

Catch-22' is the big daddy of funny war novels. It's capacious and occasionally rambling. It's a bible of literate comedy: you can find anything you want inside - it's all in there.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.

Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.

This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.

Most statesmen who become successful leaders of a country at war have usually risen to such eminence already. They have installed in themselves an ability not to suffer sleepless nights because of casualties on the other side. They now possess the mightiest of all social engines of psychic numbification—patriotism!