Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous War sayings and War Quotes - Chapter 3
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
All warfare is based on deception.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
In time of peace prepare for war.
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.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
War is failure of diplomacy.
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his 'Make America Great Again' cap. I would ask him, 'When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?'
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
I would trade 20 white babies for an Asian baby. If I'm ever rich, I want a closet full of Asian babies. And I'll just pull them out whenever I'm feeling down, you know? All kinds. Korean ones. Chinese ones. Vietnamese - not so much. My dad was in the war, and I hold a grudge.
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
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