War Quotes

"During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station."

"If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war."

"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want."

"Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses."

"To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle."

"We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about."

"Let your wife win all the battles, and you'll win the war."

"War itself is the enemy of the human race."

"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives."

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."

"In Afghanistan, Biden's woke generals tucked their tail and ran. He dishonored the sacrifices made by every American soldier who fought in the 20-year war, especially those who gave their life for the cause."

"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."

"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."

"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."

"The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature."

"With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!"

"I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged."

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well."

"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."

"It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil."

"The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war."

"I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies."

"War hath no fury like a non-combatant."

"Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population."

"War is hell."

"The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war."

"I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake."

"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."

"The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain."

"In times of conflict, our citizens have always been able to rise to the challenge. Maybe no greater example of that ability is found during the onset of World War II."

"I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war."

"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality."

"We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it."

"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

"If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral."

"In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate."

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."

"Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty."

"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."

"There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."

"Sweat saves blood."

"The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism."

"The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy."

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."

"Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning)."

"War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations."

"I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."