Quotes with war

  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  • We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
  • I was a coward. I went to the war.
  • The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
  • In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
  • 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.
  • When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
  • And we love to dance - especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
  • To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
  • Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
    Poor Richards Almanack
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Adolf Hitler Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Adolf Hitler Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • George Washington I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Voltaire To hold a pen is to be at war.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Salman Rushdie After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Cate Campbell All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Pete Holiday Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Heraclitus God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Max Gunther If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
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  • Cyril Connolly In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • William S. Burroughs Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Adam Schiff It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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