War Quotes - Page 33

• I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, Democracy

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Eyelashes, Moments

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• Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Home, Evil

  Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

  James Madison

  Peace, Government, People

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

  David Hume

  Peace, Philosophical, Tyrants

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Principles, Conquer

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• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, Patriotic

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

  Mao Zedong

  Want, Abolition

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.63, China Books

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• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Herman Kahn

  Aggravation, Two, Weapons

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• World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

  Herman Kahn

  Race, World, Arms

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

  Sue Kelly

  Effort, National Security, Terror

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• I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

  John Milius

  Stars, Pretentious, Heavy

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• Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Sex, Memories, Struggle

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.10, Random House

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• I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

  Guy Sajer

  Love, Disappointment, Order

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• A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.

  Ami McKay

  Writing, Character, Scotland

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• It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Responsibility, Men, Degrees

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• The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

  Alex Kapranos

  Football, Stars, Swimming

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• Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

  Warsan Shire

  Cancer, Apathy, Necks

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• When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

  Lukas Foss

  Shoes, Childhood, Boots

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• Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

  Lyn Nofziger

  People, Political, Hollywood

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• If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

  Dennis Weaver

  Support, Energy, Earth

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• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  Kate Adie

  Iraq, Soldier, Literature

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• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  Kate Adie

  Hair, Complaining, Literature

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• When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Kids, Unique, Games

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.119, Penguin

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• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  Dawn Powell

  Men, Vanity, Greed

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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