War Quotes - Page 265

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

There's no war that will end all wars.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism.

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.