War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Heinrich Heine

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

Ed Markey

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Baruch Spinoza

They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.

Richard M. Daley

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

Steve Buyer

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Golda Meir

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Barry Commoner

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Bob Graham

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William S. Burroughs

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

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.

James A. Baldwin

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Harry S. Truman

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Heinrich Heine

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Jalal Talabani

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Orison Swett Marden

People always make war when they say they love peace.

David Herbert Lawrence

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Alexis de Tocqueville

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

George Bernard Shaw

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Douglas Feith

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Gerrit Smith

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Albert Einstein

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Douglas Feith

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Jimmy Carter

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Maria Montessori

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt