951 private quotes tagged war

“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.” — William Westmoreland

0 favs

“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” — Howard Thurman

0 favs

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.” — Havelock Ellis

0 favs

“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.” — Henry A. Wallace

0 favs

“Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.” — Alfred Adler

0 favs

“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” — Abbie Hoffman

0 favs

“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” — Barbara Tuchman

0 favs

“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.” — Mick Jagger

0 favs

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” — Jeannette Rankin

0 favs

“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.” — Vladimir Nabokov

0 favs

“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

0 favs

“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.” — Georges Clemenceau

0 favs

“Sweat saves blood.” — Erwin Rommel

0 favs

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.” — William Burroughs

0 favs

“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.” — Umberto Eco

0 favs

“Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.” — Joe Baca

0 favs

“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” — Donald Rumsfeld

0 favs

“I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.” — Zoe Saldana

0 favs

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” — Pope Benedict XVI

0 favs

“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.” — R. Lee Ermey

0 favs

“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.” — Noam Chomsky

0 favs

“It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.” — Vanessa Kerry

0 favs

“I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.” — Christopher Meloni

0 favs

“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” — Pope John Paul II

0 favs

“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.” — Douglas MacArthur

0 favs