War Quotes - Page 109

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

The reward is in the doing of it.

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

The fight against radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS has been called the war of our time.

Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination.

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.