War Quotes

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."

"The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War."

"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."

"If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory."

"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."

"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."

"War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror."

"The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture 'War' with 'Terror' in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without 'legitimate authority' to wage war."

"To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."

"But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer."

"I am against all war."

"Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself."

"The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam."

"This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all."

"In a war of ideas it is people who get killed."

"The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn't make us safe, and that applies whether it's in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy."

"The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection."

"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."

"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."

"We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating."

"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."

"The chief incalculable in war is the human will."

"Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed."

"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back."

"When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war."

"We often know only one version of the story... the version portrayed by the person who wins a war and lives to tell the tale, and the one who loses a war is always remembered as the 'Antagonist' making the victor the 'Protagonist.'"

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."

"Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know."

"From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality."

"In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on."

"War is like love; it always finds a way."

"Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again."

"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons."

"People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'"

"The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war."

"People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them."

"A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before."

"Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure."

"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."

"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense."

"War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle."

"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."

"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."

"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."

"Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present."