I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
