Quotes About People

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.

We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.