War Quotes - page 6

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. (Ernest Hemingway)
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. View quote
Benito Mussolini
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. View quote
P. D. James
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. View quote
Abba Eban
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. View quote
Karl Rove
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. (George Herbert)
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you. View quote
Abraham Pais
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. View quote
William Beveridge
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. View quote
Herbert Hoover
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. View quote
Kenneth Clark
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
War is like love; it always finds a way. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. View quote
Heraclitus
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. (H. G. Wells)
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. View quote
Golda Meir
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. View quote
Golda Meir
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus