951 private quotes tagged war

“Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.” — Adam Schiff

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“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.” — Katherine Dunn

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“When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.” — Maya Lin

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“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” — Leon Trotsky

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“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.” — Kin Hubbard

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“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?” — Virginia Woolf

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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush

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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.” — Stephen King

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“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.” — Duke of Wellington

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“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.” — Charles Wilson

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“I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.” — Tony Blair

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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” — Omar N. Bradley

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“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” — Maria Montessori

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“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.” — Thomas Merton

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“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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