War Quotes - Page 72

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.

My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

The war is really about religion. The war's between Jesus and Muhammad. The Christians say Jesus is the messenger. Muslims say Muhammad is the messenger. Who gives a expletive who the messenger is did you get the message?

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.

Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United States...Lincoln was a great dictator....This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.