Quotes of Warfare - somelinesforyou

“ I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. ”

- Barack Obama

“ All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. ”

- Gerald R. Ford

“ Let's face it — if mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any goddamn wars in the first place. ”

- Sally Field

“ Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. ”

- Henry Ford

“ How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? ”

- Howard Zinn

“ I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope. ”

- Lin Yutang

“ History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. We Communists oppose all unjust wars that impede progress, but we do not oppose progressive, just wars… ”

- Mao Zedong

“ With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary. ”

- Howard Zinn

“ All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ”

- Francois Fenelon

“ Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.). ”

- Julius Caesar

“ The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ”

- Sun tzu

“ In combat, life is short, nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier; he is concerned with his literal life chances. ”

- Charles E. Moskos

“ Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ”

- Alan Watts

“ A "war against terrorism" is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism. ”

- John Mortimer

“ Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. ”

- W. L. George

“ All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ There's been rumors of war and wars that have beenThe meaning of life has been lost in the windAnd some people thinkin' that the end is close by'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. ”

- John Pilger

“ Wars are made to make debt. ”

- Ezra

“ Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Everyone here has been fighting for a while. We've been playing well for a couple of months. Hopefully we'll go out there tomorrow night and play good. ”

- Derek Jeter

“ This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war. ”

- Jack Nicklaus

“ War is over if you want it. ”

- Yoko Ono

“ Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. ”

- George Orwell

“ Venezuela is used to defending itself... and fighting imperialism. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ If we don't end war, war will end us. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war. ”

- Marianne Moore
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