War Quotes - Page 37

• During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Artist, Feet

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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• The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Country, Men, America

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  Army, Thinking, Opposites

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• The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Love Is, And Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.74, Routledge

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• Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on the earth! Marriage keeps thousands of things going on: the religion, the state, the nations, the wars, the literature, the movies, the science; everything, in fact, depends on the institution of marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Laughter, Silence

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• If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Blessed, Law

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• But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

  Philip Gibbs

  Sorry, Hate, France

  Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

  Rory Bremner

  Country, Sorry, Talking

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• I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Balance, Important

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• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  Oliver North

  Country, Men, Population

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

  Oliver North

  World, Courses, War Of The Worlds

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". CFIF Interview, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!

  Sargent Shriver

  Caring, Opposites, Practice

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• War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

  Aminatta Forna

  People, Survival, Trying

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• Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Military, Fighting, Son

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• When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Growing Up, Fighting, Gun

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Excuse, Has Beens

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• After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Stars, Usa

  "Matriotism" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about

  Cindy Sheehan

  Kids, Knows, Dies

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever

  Cindy Sheehan

  Believe, Uprising, Support

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• I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  People, Baltimore, Helping

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• If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

  Curtis LeMay

  Criminals, Lost, Has Beens

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• With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.

  John Fogerty

  Country, Patriotic, People

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• Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

  Adi Shamir

  Winning, Battle, Computer

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• But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Dream, Men, Common

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• I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Vietnam, Veteran, Vietnam Veteran

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