Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

Jon Stewart

In the original 'Guild Wars,' one of the big conflicts was the humans versus the charr. The humans and charr are both playable races in 'Guild Wars 2,' and they are on the same side, more or less. They don't hate each other.

Jeff Grubb

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

John Foster Dulles

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusias...

Ferdinand Lassalle

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American ...

George William Norris

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the t...

Shimon Peres

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we...

Yoko Ono

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to trav...

Clive Owen

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their famil...

Imran Khan

Alexander Pierce: I work forty floors away and it takes a hijacking for you to visit? Nick Fury: Well, a nuclear war would do it too.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Letty: What are we here for? Dominic Toretto: That. [Points at the Race Wars event straight ahead] Dominic Toretto: Race Wars. Letty: We used to come here? Dominic Toretto: Come here? We invented it.

Furious Seven

C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Princess Leia: You're not actually going IN to an asteroid field? Han Solo: They'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they?

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

C-3PO: Sir, If I may venture an opinion... Han Solo: I'm not really interested in your opinion 3PO.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Darth Vader: You have learned much, young one. Luke: You'll find I'm full of surprises.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

C-3PO: Sir, I don't know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Imperial Officer: Sir, rebel ships are coming into our sector. Captain Lennox: Good, our first catch of the day.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

C-3PO: Excuse me sir, but might I inquire as to what's going on? Han Solo: Why not? C-3PO: Impossible man.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[evacuating the Rebel Hoth base] Han Solo: [to C-3PO] Hurry up, goldenrod! Or you're gonna be a permanent resident!

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Lando: I had no choice. They arrived right before you did. I'm sorry. Han Solo: I'm sorry too.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Darth Vader: Your destiny lies with me Skywalker. Obi-Wan knew this to be true. Luke: No...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back