Quotes About War

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that's the way things are. That's the way things always have been.

Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for war.

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.

Jarret's supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. Bullets are cheap and full of big dramatic pictures. Some bullets are true virtuals that allow people to experience—safely—hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and mass murder. Hell of a kick.

The Human Contradiction again. The Contradiction, it was more often called among Oankali. Intelligence and hierarchical behavior. It was fascinating, seductive, and lethal. It had brought Humans to their final war.

Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.

Attention : A la guerre Comme en temps de paix, L'égoïsme aveugle Fait plus de victimes Que tous les autres fléaux Semence de la Terre : le Livre des Vivants

supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.

Amid all this, somehow, the United States of America suffered a major nonmilitary defeat. It lost no important war, yet it did not survive the Pox. Perhaps it simply lost sight of what it once intended to be, then blundered aimlessly until it exhausted itself.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

change, and with Jarret, who with his war and his Crusaders, has slowed it even more.

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilisation were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. Fain would we await the time when due respect shall be paid to our art and ideals.

after three years of war, a death from disease, even if it befell a public figure, had ceased being an event worth talking about.

A jesieni? 2016, (.......), w Ukrainie dobiega? ko?ca trzeci rok wojny z Rosj?, we Francji kremlowscy kandydaci przymierzali si? do fotela prezydenckiego (jak mawia? Borys Bierezowski o nowych zasadach polityki zagranicznej Federacji Rosyjskiej ,,po co kupowa? fabryk?, skoro mo?na kupi? dyrektora?").......

secretly, they both rejoiced, gloried in the fact they had a daughter and not a son, that no matter how many waves of mobilization came, none could bring a draft notice to their home, ever.

Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.

Morning, noon and night, every civilized people was assured that enemies, whose flavor was of course subhuman and foul, were plotting its destruction. Armament scares, spy stories, accounts of the barbarous and sadistic behavior of neighboring peoples, created in every country such uncritical suspicion and hate that war became inevitable.