Quotes About War

Auschwitz was a much safer place to be than Dresden or any other city of any size in Germany from 1943 onward.

Most histories of war are written by the victors who, by the very fact that they have won, are prone to discount atrocities committed by their side, minimize their opportunistic or selfish motives in waging the war, and denigrate the qualities of the losing side.

Money, endless money, is the sinews of war," wrote Cicero in his Philippics (43 BC). Not only money, but credit, too.

This unique ability of the U.S. Government to borrow from foreign central banks rather than from its own citizens is one of the economic miracles of modern times. Without it the war-induced American prosperity of the 1960s and early 1970s would have ended quickly, as was threatened in 1973 when foreign central banks decided to cut their currencies loose from the dollar, letting them float upward rather than accepting a further flood of U.S. Treasury IOUs.

Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, said, "This war was launched without an imminent threat to our families…. Radical 'know it all' ideologues here in Washington bent facts, distorted intelligence, and perpetrated lies designed to mislead the American people into believing that a third-rate thug had a hand in the 9/11 tragedy and was soon to unleash a mushroom cloud.

If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness… I expect it will come from the artists. – Karl Paulnack, 2004

Lawrence's concern about the loss of twenty Arabs may seem odd during a war in which British war dead would exceed 750,000, but he felt strongly that "Our men were not materials, like soldiers, but friends of ours, trusting in our leadership.

The United States Navy, during the war, used Navajos as "code-talkers" who relayed messages from ship to ship, talking in Navajo (a language not studied in Japan).

The greatest redemption is between the war of two evils, their very retaliation reveals their goodly nature.

It was apparent that both the Wazirs and the Mahsuds were building up a large lashkar (a gathering of hostile forces); the numbers were reported as about 1,000 armed men. This was the first occasion that I heard the word 'Jihud' mentioned; there are a number of interpretations given to it; in its simplest form it could be a holy war declared by Muslims on the unbelievers of Islam.

Twenty-five years later, Pat Buchanan has been proven correct. There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. On one side of the battlefield is the religion known as progressivism. On the other stands the New Right.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Whereas the presence of a powerful state suppresses the capability of fighting, the benefits of trade suppress the intention to fight. Countries that trade with one another avoid war not because they fear losing but because they do not find winning an attractive prospect: they gain more economically by not fighting than by prevailing.

There can be no light without darkness, no calm without the storm, no peace without war. Others will come, as they always have, and it will be up to us to drive them back into the shadows so that the covenant can be renewed once more.

History shows that democracies rarely go to war with each other.6 So a democratic Russia would no longer be an enemy of the United States. A

We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president… a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons…. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

I tell you, my friends,' he said one day. 'I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It's the others that are mad, but they don't know it. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it's me they call mad!

If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.