War Quotes - Page 38

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.