Category: Quotes About War

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. -Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. -Thor Heyerdahl

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. -Gavin DeGraw

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. -Christopher Hitchens

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. -Tom Hiddleston

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. -Julien Benda

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. -Bianca Jagger

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. -Bianca Jagger

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in. -Craig Ferguson

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. -Samuel Butler

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat. -Ron Paul

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. -Norman Schwarzkopf

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. -Steven Spielberg

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. -George McGovern

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. -Thomas Jefferson

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time. -Gary Numan

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. -George Orwell

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. -Julie Burchill

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. -Leon Trotsky

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first. -John T. Flynn