Quotes of: War-hero Keyword

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

Stephen Gaghan

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Sebastian Junger

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Ty Cobb

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Ted Turner

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Ted Turner

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

Uzo Aduba

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Umberto Eco

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

Victor Davis Hanson

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

William Halsey

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Washington Irving

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Wilfred Owen

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

A Clash of Kings

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." [ ]

Complete Short Stories

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Catch-22

it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.

Caliban's War

Viel Leisten - wenig hervortreten - mehr sein als scheinen." Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

Command in War