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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

The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m. — Caitlin Doughty

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

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. — Samuel B. Pettengill

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography? — James Nachtwey

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger. — Joe Biden

America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war. — George S. Patton

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger. — George Vecsey

perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war. — Ernest Hemingway,

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war. — John O. Brennan

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot. — Jules Renard

Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. — Saddam Hussein

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why. — Robert Lembke

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party. — Vanna Bonta

That you don't make war without knowing why. — Tim O'Brien

And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! — Erich Maria Remarque

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? — Alice Walker

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

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. — David Bromstad

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people? — Wally Herger

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left. — Ian Paisley

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160) — Eknath Easwaran

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny. — Neil Simon

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again. — Adolf Hitler

Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war? — William Butler Yeats

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"? — Stefan Molyneux

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. — Robert Mueller

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse? — Theodore Roosevelt

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

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes? — Jermaine O'Neal

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars. — Orson Welles

Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that's fine and beautiful? — Michael Morpurgo

I could easily understand why Lambert was bored with this peace which gave us back our lives without giving us back our reasons for living. — Simone De Beauvoir

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war ... and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun? — Adrian Carton De Wiart

That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power. — Frederick Lenz

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet? — Felix J. Palma

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why. — Randall Wallace

Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War. — Thomas Waite

You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead? — Kurt Vonnegut

I became amazed at how much my men would tolerate if someone just took the time to explain the why of it all to them. — Donovan Campbell

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors? — Thomas Hobbes

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace? — Audrey Hepburn

Why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them? — Arthur Findlay

In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem? — Noam Chomsky

by dropping down from above. Why is war so much like a practical joke? she — Margaret Atwood

Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact? — Michel Templet

On bad days you wonder, 'Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife? — David Mitchell

If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side?? — Anand Neelakantan

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty? — Preston Sturges

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy? — Sylvia Plath

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. — Qin Shi Huang

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell. — Ann Coulter

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?' Mustafa — Asne Seierstad

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know. — Jayne Anne Phillips

Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it. — Michel Templet

Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date? — Pepe Eliaschev

It's rare in war for either side to consider the innocent." Why — J.D. Robb

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn't she unmake it again? — Kameron Hurley

The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap. — Lars Anderson

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

Why wait for Death to mow?
why wait for Death to sow
us in the ground? — Hilda Doolittle

Ridiculous! Why don't you go into gunrunning, and sell the ancient Athenians a couple of machine guns so they can win the Peloponnesian War? — Kurt Vonnegut

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland. — Ken Follett

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. — Karl Shapiro

I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars. — Fela Kuti

My people prepare for a battle we cannot win in a war intended for our destruction. Why should I risk their safety to rescue a legend? — Gillian Bronte Adams

If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies. — Dana Gould

True war isn't philosophical."
"All war is philosophical. That's why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it's nothing more than murder. — Roshani Chokshi

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years? — Sara Sheridan

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was. — Pearl S. Buck

When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why. — Joe Reyes

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible). — Juan Williams

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder. — Obafemi Awolowo

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. — Bum Phillips

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

Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind? — Debasish Mridha

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering. — Vasily Grossman

And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade. — Jon McGregor

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks? — Lowkey

You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why. — Glen Cook

You wonder why we entered the war years after the movie was shot. — Sam Wisestock

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists? — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction? — Anne Frank

If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war? — Debasish Mridha

It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today — Joseph Goebbels

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128 — Donna Tartt

For why war? Nada ne hurt, sister ne hurt, for why you make vesna sore? For why! — Poppet

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you! — Bertolt Brecht

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now? — Vladimir Putin

Why is it easier to get men to go to war than to see a counselor? — Steven Gould

Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor? — Daron Malakian

And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what one sees will disappear forever. — Kevin Powers

Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil. — Stephen Colbert