War Quotes - Page 105

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

An evil discovered is half healed.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

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.

Unfortunately, as inspiring as people find Barack Obama, change can be interpreted in so many different ways. I think he might do a great deal of good things for social programs here in America and as well, as much as people want to characterize anybody who's a leader and try and sell that, and market it and characterize them in a good way or a bad way, I think it's very telling about the system that we have when we come to the realization that the war is not going to end.

When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from the deeper, spiritual dimensions of your conflict. Your adversary may be hopelessly in bondage to sin. Rather than retaliating, you should immediately and earnestly intercede for that person. Your opponent's hostility is your invitation to become involved in God's redemptive work to free him or her from spiritual bondage. Be alert to the spiritual warfare around you.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.

Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls it. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.