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Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war — Bob Marley

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas Feith

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. — Thucydides

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home — Steven Spielberg

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. — James Thomson

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. — Henry Ford

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. — Homer

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

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam. — Barack Obama

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'. — Graham Hancock

There are no atheists in the foxhole. — Ernie Pyle

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. — Albert Einstein

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. — Zaha Hadid

War is just a damn nuisance. — Mark Hanna

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon. — Jay Leno

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education. — David O. Russell

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason. — Paul Fussell

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure. — Jacques Chirac

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. — Clare Short

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war. — Jane Lynch

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there. — Paul Virilio

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. — Balroop Singh

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall. — Phil Ochs

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. — Meir Kahane

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. — Voltaire

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. — Salvador Dali

There's only one truth about war: people die. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws. — Barack Obama

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself. — Anonymous

I know of nothing more exciting than war. — Moshe Dayan

Real peace is not only the absence of war but the presence of God . — Osunsakin Adewale

Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome? — John Milton

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law. — Tim Weiner

Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout! — Joshua

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war. — Ben Dreyfuss

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. — Benito Mussolini

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything. — Giulio Andreotti

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after. — Ogden Nash

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. — Paul Valery

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

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics? — William Blum

I war not with the dead. — Homer

I have a message for president snow, you can bomb us but if we burn, you burn with us! — Susan Collins

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Political correctness is a war on noticing. — Steve Sailer

Deception is the art of war. — James Patterson

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. — Kurt Vonnegut

Lo! A call for a bloody trial-
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. — John F. Kennedy

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

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools — Michael Pitre

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

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress. — Brooke Astor

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it. — Chalmers Johnson

When people go at war they cheapen things. — Michael Pitt

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. — Wilfred Owen

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one. — Sallust

It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes. — Noam Chomsky

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace. — Arundhati Roy

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another. — Duke Of Wellington

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. — Barbara Tuchman

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war. — Stephen Greco

The threat of a world war is no more. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war — Napoleon Bonaparte

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... — Jane Porter

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness. — Prince Hassan Bin Talal

Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. — Paul Johnson

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The war brought out all the art in me. — Horace Pippin

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 President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. — Alan Alda

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

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. — Nikita Khrushchev

Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat. — Donald Hall

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

But that's the thing: when you swear to take someone's side no matter what, sometimes you have to go to war for them. — Leila Sales

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. — Anthony Liccione

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. — Jim

The war against terrorism is one we must win. — Lisa Murkowski

Mesopotamia
will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled — Hammurabi

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. — Heinrich Heine

You are always sending us to our deaths. We're soldiers, it is what we do. — B.E.L. Forsythe

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. — Golda Meir