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Quotes About War

Scorpios are more conscious of the war in their own natures than are most people. Perhaps they are ashamed of their intense feelings and it is for this reason that they tend to be secretive...
~ Sheila Geddes, 1980
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.
~ H. L. Mencken
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.
~ H. Rap Brown
Helen, Helen, come home; there was a Helen before there was a War, but who remembers her?
~ H.D.
Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
~ H.W. Brands
The U.S. imperialists are expanding their war against national independence and peace in Vietnam. They are committing monstrous atrocities and crimes more odious than the Hitlerite fascists.
~ H? Chí Minh
At the moment of a revolution there is no question of setting up a democracy like that in America. If they accuse me of dictatorship, I accept. I am creating a nation. Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeriauntil the nation becomes homogeneous.
~ Habib Bourguiba
Die Revolution wirkte auf mich und meine Altersgenossen gerade umgekehrt wie der Krieg: der Krieg hatte unser wirkliches Leben bis zur Langweiligkeit unverändert gelassen, dafür aber unsere Phantasie reichen und unerschöpflichen Stoff gegeben. Die Revolution brachte viel Neues in die tägliche Wirklichkeit, und das Neue war bunt und aufregend genug, aber sie ließ die Phantasie unbeschädigt.
~ Haffner, Sebastian (1907-1999)
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
~ Hair
Jihad – struggle; in a narrow sense, understood to mean "war" or military exercise or engagement. "Jihad al–Akbar, "the great struggle" refers to the highest level of self-discipline that brings one closest to the Almighty as a result of overcoming one's ego.
~ Hajjah Amina Adil
War kills everybody, including the ones who live.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Eine Nation ist sowohl die Summe unserer Stärken als auch unserer Dummheit. Im Krieg gehorchen die Ersten der Letzteren.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Krieg ist eine bescheuerte Sache, doch trotzdem mussten wir ihn führen. Mussten. Fragt mich nicht, warum. Wir mussten.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Der Krieg stellt Fragen, auf die der Frieden keine Antwort hat.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Wir sind alle ein bisschen gestorben in diesem Krieg, glaube ich. Wie meine Mutter immer gesagt hat. Krieg tötet alle, auch die, die ihn überleben.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
~ Hamid Karzai
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
~ Hamid Karzai
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
~ Hamid Karzai
Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled
~ Hammurabi
We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Agnes Newton Keith Three Came Home
~ Hampton Sides
War, he said, quoting John Stuart Mill, was "an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things….A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.
~ Hampton Sides
They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the fact that every individual German belonged to the generality of Germans and must share in the general destiny of Germany, even as more and more bombs were falling on the just and unjust alike.
~ Hans Fallada
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
~ Hans Kung
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
~ Hans Rosling