Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

Lynn Nottage

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Bertolt Brecht

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.

Eric Shinseki

War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Steven Hatfill

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Mike Birbiglia

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

Dick Morris

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Alan Gorrie

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

James A. Garfield

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

Wendell Willkie

'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.

Peter Dinklage

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

Ted Nugent

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Bianca Jagger

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Alva Myrdal

Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future.

Greg van Eekhout

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Rufus Wainwright

I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.

Evangeline Lilly

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

Francis Parker Yockey