1,023 Quotes Regarding War


I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
Zoe Saldana

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
Conrad Black

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
Dennis Hastert

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
King Hussein I

The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
Hamid Karzai

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Lec

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
Phyllis Schlafly

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
Jim Ramstad

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry Commoner

Killing is the payoff of war.
Morley Safer

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
Colin Quinn

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
Barney Ross

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
Paul Wolfowitz

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
Thom Yorke

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
Paul Wolfowitz

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
Michael Haneke

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
Paul Wolfowitz

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.
Michael Haneke