Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Jan Schakowsky

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Joe Wilson

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

Judy Woodruff

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

John Yoo

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Klaus Fuchs

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

Lydia Lunch

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Lester B. Pearson

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Livy

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Michael Ignatieff

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

Mandy Patinkin

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Mao Zedong

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Neil Kinnock

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar N. Bradley

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Patrick Macnee

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Richard Dawkins