Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

Paul Watson

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Robert Bourassa

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

Randal Cremer

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

Ric Keller

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

Sidney Blumenthal

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Sandy Duncan

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Stanley Hauerwas

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

Scott Nearing

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Sharon Stone

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

Stacey Snider

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Thomas Carlyle

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Timothy Noah

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virginia Woolf

China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.

Wesley Clark

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.

Will Durst