War Quotes - Page 96

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has."

Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

The culture war in America can best be described by the battle between workin' hard, playin' hard s - tkickers that bust our ass to make America strong by earning our own way and kickin' maximum ass versus soulless weaklings who have been brainwashed into thinking they are entitled to a free ride.