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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
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
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
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
— Pope John Paul II
Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.
— Cass Sunstein
Kofi Annan's kangaroo court ... a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world.
— Tom DeLay
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
— Irene Khan
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.
— Helen Thomas
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
— Henry Kissinger
The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
— Sun Tzu
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
— Barry McCaffrey
You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.
— Graham Hancock
Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.
— Amy Poehler
We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
— Ethan Nadelmann
There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
— Jay Leno
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
She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.
— Chris Cleave
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
— Abraham Lincoln
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
— Cofer Black
We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.
— Zack Wamp
We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.
— Justin Cronin
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
— Saxby Chambliss
The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.
— Konrad Adenauer
Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
— Lauren Willig
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
— Robert E.Lee
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
- al'Lan Mandragoran — Robert Jordan
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
— Lindsey Graham
The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.
— Barack Obama
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
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
I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
— Steve Jobs
Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
— Nikita Khrushchev
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
— Robert McKee
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 still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
— Alan Colmes
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
— Alfred Adler
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
— Herman Melville
Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools
— Michael Pitre
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
— Abigail Disney
War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.
— William Rees-Mogg
The issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.
— Pat Buchanan
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
— Rosanne Cash
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
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
— Bill Kristol
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end
— Primo Levi
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
— Hamid Karzai
It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.
— Trevor Noah
War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.
— Samuel Snoek-Brown
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
— Sydney Biddle Barrows
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
— Noam Chomsky
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
— Arlen Specter
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
— Leo Tolstoy
Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
War has been declared on France ...
— Nicolas Sarkozy
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
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved
— Juan Manuel Santos
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
— Chester W. Nimitz
It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war.
— Bruce H. Norton
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
The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
— Patrick J. Kennedy
What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism.
— Mohsin Hamid
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— Mark Twain
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
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
— Richard Aldington
Just beyond the edges of our little circle of sunshine, a ferocious war was going on.
— Haruki Murakami
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
— Daniel H. Wilson
Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight. — Erica Cameron
I hate midnight. — Erica Cameron
Told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education.
— Malala Yousafzai
Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.
— Ann Coulter
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
— Douglas MacArthur
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
— Condoleezza Rice
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
Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Political correctness is a war on noticing.
— Steve Sailer
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
— Bob Gunton
John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.
— Kevin Rudd
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
— Edward Kennedy
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
— Napoleon Bonaparte