War Quotes - Page 27

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.