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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
— Irwin Winkler
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
— Douglas Feith
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
— Irene Khan
I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.
— Tim O'Brien
I live like a Nazi war criminal or a serial killer... like I have something to be ashamed of.
— Elliott James
Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
— Etgar Keret
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
— Henry Rollins
War is just a damn nuisance.
— Mark Hanna
Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
— David O. Russell
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
— Victor Hugo
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say ... 'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'
— Arthur Fremantle
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
— Bryant McGill
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
— Ahad Ha'am
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
— Edmund Burke
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
— William Golding
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
— Richard Aldington
War is just an effect, not a cause.
— Marianne Williamson
A world without war is not in the cards.
— Martin Van Creveld
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war.
— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.
— William Dalrymple
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
— Robert Anton Wilson
War is the worst thing that can happen to us, it is worse than a disease; it set our hearts on fire and burns our souls to dust.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.
— Miyamoto Musashi
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace?
— Maya Angelou
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
— Terry Pratchett
Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."~Doyle Brunson — Kiara Delaney
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
— Jacqueline Winspear
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
— Albert Einstein
I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens!
— Ibrahim Ibrahim
Just beyond the edges of our little circle of sunshine, a ferocious war was going on.
— Haruki Murakami
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
— Henry A. Kissinger
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
— H.L. Mencken
There was nothing that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between mythical beings. Unless you know ... you were Frodo.
— Samantha Young
It is a comfort to know that, regardless of our mistakes, the God who loved, forgave, and empowered David does the same for us.
— Cliff Graham
I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't.
— Arthur Golden
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
— Steven Galloway
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
— Duke Of Wellington
Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Political correctness is a war on noticing.
— Steve Sailer
War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
— Anonymous
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
— Clint Eastwood
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
— Heinrich Heine
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
— Golda Meir
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
— Brooke Astor
And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war.
— Stephen Greco
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.
— Prince Hassan Bin Talal
What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.
— A.J. Vega
The threat of a world war is no more.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.
— Anthony Liccione
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
It's a war of truths; everyone has his own truth, his own vision of the world. The truth with more firepower will win the day and reign supreme
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
— Hunter S. Thompson
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
It's east to start a war in any country
— Hermann Goring
Weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by
— Joyce Maynard
It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
— Neil Kinnock
So, if they hold aloof from you and wage not war against you and offer you peace, Allah alloweth you no way against them" (Qur'an 4:90).
— Denise A. Spellberg
Welcome to war. It's always a SNAFU: situation normal, all f - ed up.
— Nicholas Sparks
War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.
— Noam Chomsky
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
— Yasser Arafat
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
— Ernst Zundel
