War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Donald Rumsfeld

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

William Westmoreland

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Alice Walker

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Bruce Jackson

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Henry Ellis

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

Ahmed Ben Bella

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

Adam Schiff

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Thomas Jefferson

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

Joschka Fischer

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Michael Ignatieff

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Richard M. Nixon

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Richard M. Nixon

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Naguib Mahfouz

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

Jim Walsh

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Cliff Stearns

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Georg Brandes

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Martin Scorsese

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar N. Bradley

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Dick Morris

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

Ellen Tauscher

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

Adam Schiff

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Charles Eastman

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

Doc Hastings

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Ulrich Beck

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry A. Kissinger

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Fredrik Bajer

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

Arthur Keith

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

Ron Lewis

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Russell Banks