War Quotes

"Conquered, we conquer."

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

"American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's."

"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

"War is what happens when language fails."

"If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race."

"Every war has its demons."

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."

"I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters."

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

"War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off."

"As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war."

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."

"France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war."

"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."

"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"

"I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap."

"I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there."

"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account."

"When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left."

"Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'"

"Nothing can justify war."

"War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks."

"I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no."

"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."

"Quickness is the essence of the war."

"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."

"I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources."

"The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind."

"The issues are always the same. Racism, war, poverty, the geography changes."

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves."

"War is the trade of Kings."

"All the gods are dead except the god of war."

"We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors."

"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on."

"What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States."

"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."

"It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided."

"Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face."

"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."

"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."

"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."

"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."

"It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken."

"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead."

"The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it."