951 private quotes tagged war

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.” — James A. Baldwin

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“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” — George McGovern

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“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” — Noah Webster

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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” — Francois Fenelon

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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover

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“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?” — Joan Baez

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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

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“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

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

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“People always make war when they say they love peace.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” — William Hazlitt

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“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza

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

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“You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.” — Geraldine Ferraro

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“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.” — John Andrew Holmes

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“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” — Herodotus

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

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