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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell

Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin
War gets deep, some beef is everlastin — Nas

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war. — John Piper

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. — Dustin Hoffman

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

What's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?
-Dan Garrett — Leah Rae Miller

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back — Lee Benson

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace. — Norman Finkelstein

The war on drugs is what makes thugs. — John McWhorter

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. — Timothy Noah

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists? — Krishna Udayasankar

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got. — George W. Bush

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. — Mike Norton

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. — John Bolton

Decisions to start a war always come down to what is in the best interests of the powerful few. — Andrew Watts

That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime? — Suzanne Hayes

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge. — Sun Tzu

What fools men are, and what an evil thing is war. — Wally Lamb

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it? — Laini Taylor

What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. - WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915 — Jacqueline Winspear

What a cruel thing war is ... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. — Robert E.Lee

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this! — Cotton Mather

What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. — John Green

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. — Alex Berenson

War what is it good for? It's good for business. — Billy Bragg

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For? — Jerry Seinfeld

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. — Arthur Wellesley

There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal. — Albert Camus

What I write about is not war but the courage of man. — Cornelius Ryan

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill

There comes a time when we can no longer tell the invaders from the invaded. That is what we call "War. — Hiroya Oku

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand. — Christopher Isherwood

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is. — Iyad Allawi

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal. — Richard Louv

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is. — Zakk Wylde

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester Nimitz

War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is. — Mark Baker

Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race. — Anthony Marais

My mind knows what is right, but my flesh is at war against my spirit? — Deborah N. Kabwang

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they? — Napoleon Bonaparte

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take. — Jamie Bell

You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness. — Jose Saramago

What our world needs now is not war for our earth has seen too much of its bloodshed but peace is what humanity truly needs — Timothy Pina

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! — Leo Tolstoy

Idle war of head versus heart
It's always this way
My head is weak it always speaks
Before I know what it will say — Death Cab For Cutie

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war. — Stefan Molyneux

A hospital alone shows what war is. — Erich Maria Remarque

No more game playing. It's time we call this fight what it is: a war. — Katie McGarry

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. — Henry David Thoreau

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it. — Kenneth Waltz

The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about. — Alexander Suvorov

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is. — Julie Delpy

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists. — Nicola Sturgeon

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income. — Ludwig Von Mises

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy. — Horatio Nelson

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action. — Lyndon B. Johnson

What is so detestable about war is that it reduces the individual to complete insignificance. — David Gascoyne

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who ... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. — Ray McGovern

Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That's what war is. — James S.A. Corey

God does not care where you pray. He only cares what is in your heart. — Tucker Elliot

What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps. — Tibullus

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. — Sun Tzu

In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War — Pierce Brown

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it. — Sydney J. Harris

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas — Sam Harris

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. — Rosanne Cash

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over. — Byron Katie

What did Plato say?" "He said, 'It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.'" "And — Elizabeth Hunter

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. — Howard Zinn

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. — Howard Zinn

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience. — Nicholas Proffitt

What is peace without war? — K. Weikel

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

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. — Sophia Loren

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

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

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

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. — Allan Massie

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. — A.J.P. Taylor

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks

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

Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio — Miles Cameron

The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares — Agona Apell

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am. — Stephen Farrell

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes! — Charles Dickens

That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. — Gertrude Stein

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes. — Billy Rose

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it. — Kaoru Kurimoto

Art is the war against what we do not choose to feel. It's the battle of color, words, sound, and shape, and it rages for or against love. — Tarryn Fisher

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal. — Patch Adams

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. — Cindy Sheehan

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that. — David Hackworth

At this moment,' I said, 'I think you will be surprised at what he will allow. Our centurion has just discovered what he lives for, and it is this. — M.C. Scott

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword? — Moshe Sharett

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak. — Sun Tzu

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war. — Leslie Groves