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Quotes About War

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
~ Unknown
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.
~ Lauren Beukes
Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
~ Sam Harris
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
~ Tom Wolfe
Our goal in Iraq is victory. Our goal is for a young democracy to be able to sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.
~ George W. Bush
I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.
~ Lindsey Graham
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.
~ Unknown
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
~ John Donne
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
~ Eric Gill
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
~ Clint Eastwood
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
~ Paul Begala
The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.
~ Cindy Sheehan
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.
~ Senator John Kerry
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.
~ Abraham Lincoln
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty.
~ Lord Byron
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody
~ Bertrand Russell
Love is a shelter in a raging storm. Love is peace in the middle of a war, and if we try to leave, may God send angels to lock the doors. No, love is not a fight, but it's something worth fighting for.
~ Unknown
Sometimes in order to have peace, love, and happiness there must be war, hate, and sadness.
~ Unknown
The world needs soldiers of Peace, soldiers of Love, and soldiers of Hope! Not soldiers of war and hate! Hate kills but Love heals, lets love, heal the world and live together in peace!
~ Unknown
Love is like a war! That is easy to start but difficult to end!
~ Unknown