War Quotes - Page 125

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

Our wardrobe needs to be more versatile, and, above all, it needs to be comfortable.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.