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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
— Ralph Steadman
And then he knew that war is no good, because vanquishing a man is as bitter as being vanquished.
— Albert Camus
Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
— Ursula Parrott
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
— John Steinbeck
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
— Henry Ford
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
— Michael Shaara
And I can tell you, without question, that it's too late for any man who goes to war. Even if he lives, he'll never come back the same.
— J. Nelle Patrick
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid ... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party ...
— George Bernard Shaw
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
— Horatio Nelson
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
— Dave Malloy
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.
— James Longstreet
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
— George R R Martin
Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first.
— George R R Martin
Why should the imagination of a manLong past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war? — William Butler Yeats
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
— William Faulkner
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
— George S. Patton Jr.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
— Rachel Carson
It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Takin' it to ISIS, man!" Blue Jacket thumped his chest twice, and I read the saying on his shirt: Turning ISIS into WASWAS.
— Jennifer Lane
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
— John Grisham
Love between a man and woman is war.
— August Strindberg
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.
— Erwin Rommel
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
— Herman Melville
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
— William Beveridge
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
— George S. Patton
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
— Edmund Spenser
Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
— A.A. Milne
It is not that you know nothing about war, young man ... It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.
— Richard Flanagan
It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
— John Steinbeck
Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.
— Charles William Chadwick Oman
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
— William Shakespeare
War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.
— Samuel Ibn Naghrillah
Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.
— M.L. Stedman
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
— Sydney J. Harris
When I got home from my war, my uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he bellowed, 'You're a MAN now!'I damn near killed my first German. — Kurt Vonnegut
You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.
— Henry A. Kissinger
It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Man is for war; woman for the recreation of the warrior.
— E. M. Forster
There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
— Winston S. Churchill
How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.
— Esther Forbes
Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should simply not be without it.
— Takeda Shingen
He'd never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.
— Miranda Liasson
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
— Mao Zedong
The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars
— Freddie Mercury
So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound ...
— Hernando Cortes
To the left, Pigpen, Man O'War and Dust are laughing in a booth with my brother, Brandon.
— Katie McGarry
Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world.
— Billy Graham
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
— Lester B. Pearson
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
— Clarence Darrow
Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile.
— Frederick Maurice
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight ...
— Shelby Foote
You could still tell at a glance who'd been over there and who'd sat the war out at home. You could smell it on a man.
— M.L. Stedman
Let's honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.
— Steve Anderson
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
— Jean Giraudoux
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.
— Hans F. Sennholz
They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington ...
— Claire Vaye Watkins
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
— Finley Peter Dunne
W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
— David Finkel
Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land.Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested. — Toba Beta
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
— Alexander Hamilton
The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.
— Michael R. Fletcher
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
— Henry Lee III
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
— Thomas De Quincey
This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war.
— Bernard Cornwell
