Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Charles B. Rangel

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

David Cross

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

Dan Savage

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

Frans de Waal

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

Gerhard Schroder

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Irving Thalberg

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

John le Carre

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

John T. Flynn

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

James Lovelock

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

Jeff Rich

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Nick Cave

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Noam Chomsky

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

Philip Gibbs

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

Pierre Salinger

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

Paul Wolfowitz

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Rand Paul

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

Sebastian Junger

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

Tom Harkin

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Theodor Adorno