War Quotes - Page 29

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

I believe it is peace for our time.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.