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Quotes About War

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.
~ Adolf Hitler
Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
~ Bruce Sterling
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.
~ David Zindell
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
~ Gianni Agnelli
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
~ Henry Wriston
We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.
~ Evan Bayh
During the war, women without nylons drew lines up the backs of their legs to give the illusion of silk stockings. Painting over grey hair with spray-on root touch-up - or even dark eyeshadow - is the Covid-19 equivalent.
~ Susanna Reid
'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.
~ John Prine
I've most liked dressing up as a flapper. I've been flappered twice. But I care not only about the clothes they wore but what they stood for. It's early-liberated, earning money, having the vote, their potential husband probably died in the war, that kind of independence.
~ Lucy Worsley
I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.
~ Kofi Annan
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
~ Otto Preminger
Pele revolutionized football. Pele stopped a war. Pele united countries, united families.
~ Cafu
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.
~ June Carter Cash
Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.
~ Tony Greig
After each of my books about the war has appeared, I thought it might be the last, but I've stopped saying that to myself. There are just too many stories left to tell - in fact, more all the time.
~ Tim O'Brien
I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.
~ Ben Linder
I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.
~ Tim O'Brien
The action of 'Horse Soldiers' is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare - but with a lot of moxie.
~ Doug Stanton
As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
~ Francis W. Newman
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
~ Robert Fisk
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
~ Arlen Specter
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
~ Kelly Miller