Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

Virginia Postrel

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Abu Abbas

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

Ahmet Ertegun

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Adolf Hitler

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

Andrew Jackson

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

Alan Zweibel

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Benjamin Franklin

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Bruce Jackson

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Bruce Jackson

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Cyril Connolly

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Charles Evans Hughes

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

C. L. R. James

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

Chiang Kai-shek

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Clare Short

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Douglas Haig

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

Dylan Moran

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Ezra Stiles

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Eamon de Valera