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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
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
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
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
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 manLong 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
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
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
The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
— Qin Shi Huang
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?
— Lowkey
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
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
Love, why have you sought the hordeof spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.
— Stephen Colbert