Browsing Topic Best War Quotes

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Avoiding a war with Russia that could go nuclear, however, has always been a vital strategic interest, especially since Moscow acquired nuclear weapons. Every American president has known that. And avoidance of war with the United States has been a guiding principle of Russian foreign policy from Stalin to Putin.

After 20 years of war, we can’t allow US policy to devastate Afghanistan’s economy and put millions at risk of starvation this winter.

Biden must show the same strength that he demonstrated when ending the war in Afghanistan… If not, instead of making the world see Saudi Arabia for the pariah that it is, MBS will have succeeded in making [Joe] Biden the hypocrite he shouldn’t be.

Once again, people in the foreign policy establishment want us barreling towards another reckless war instead of working on diplomacy and finding a peaceful solution.

Biden can very easily prevent a war with Russia by guaranteeing that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. It is not in our national security interests for Ukraine to become a member of NATO anyway, so why not give Russia that assurance?

I’m still not over how repugnant it is that politicians like Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton devote their lives to demanding wars that other families go fight and die in, then turn around and smear those who risk their lives for their wars — like Tulsi Gabbard — as traitors.

This war machine, this power elite in Washington, wants to turn Ukraine into another Afghanistan, turn into killing fields where this long-term insurgency is supported.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

War and marketing have many similarities.

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong… There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Nipples aren’t killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There’s so much violence in the world. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

I’m against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world’s people.

When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

**** it, holler them across.