No War Quotes
The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.
Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.
Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.
To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.
Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.
They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.
I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
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The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.
Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.
Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.
I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.
The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
