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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
Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
This is how hatred begins with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door. — Teresa R. Funke
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
Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.
— Cass Sunstein
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
— Irene Khan
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
— Desiderius Erasmus
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
— J. Arthur Thomson
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I mean you've seen it on the newsreels. I mean you've heard it on the radio and all, haven't you? — J.D. Salinger
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
— Henry Kissinger
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
— Charles De Gaulle
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
— Barry McCaffrey
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
— Benito Mussolini
Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!
— A.T. Murray
I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn't just for the hungry, but for the ones that go the extra mile to take a bite.
— Angela Richardson
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
— Margaret MacMillan
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
— Robert E.Lee
tittering on the brink of a war.
— Kelly St. Clare
We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.
— Zack Wamp
A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.
— Glenn Greenwald
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
— Saxby Chambliss
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
— Roseanne Barr
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
— Lee Myung-bak
Romance wasn't fair. Nor was it a game. It was war. And, as on any other battlefield, compassion and mercy had no place there.
— A.G. Howard
We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.
— Craig L. Thomas
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
— Shannon L. Alder
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
— Jim Cooper
We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.
— Bill Hicks
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
At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
— Vasily Grossman
Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries.
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
But anyone who believes in the war on drugs is missing a crucial point as to why the war can never be won. Feeling good will never go out of style.
— Ryan Vanderford
We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.
— Erich Maria Remarque
We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.
— Narendra Modi
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
— Kevin J. Anderson
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
— Ethel Lynn Beers
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
— Antony Beevor
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
— Benjamin Carson
The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.
— Jerry Pournelle
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
— Herman Melville
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
— Abraham Lincoln
I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
— Steve Jobs
In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon.- al'Lan Mandragoran — Robert Jordan
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
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
When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
— Takeda Nobushige
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
— Bill Kristol
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
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
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Just beyond the edges of our little circle of sunshine, a ferocious war was going on.
— Haruki Murakami
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
— Richard Aldington
Political correctness is a war on noticing.
— Steve Sailer
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
War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.
— William Rees-Mogg
Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
— Mouloud Benzadi
A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.
— Erich Maria Remarque
The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.
— Brigitte Gabriel
War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end.
— Mitch Rowland
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
— Jeannette Rankin
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
— William Gibson
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
— Rosanne Cash
It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.
— Trevor Noah
