Top War Quotes

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.

War Definition

(a.) Ware; aware.

(n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.

(n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

(n.) Instruments of war.

(n.) Forces; army.

(n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.

(n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.

(v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.

(v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.

(v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.

(v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we'd laugh. There must have been a time when it w...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct a...

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

It is not easy to be the citizen of a Superpower, nor is it getting easier. I would feel isolated with my shame if I were not sure that I belong, among millions of Americans, to a perennial minority o...

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the governmen...

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people...

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONEWHO TRIES TO MAKEA DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVESOF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Three times now... We've fought world wars for our own nations, our own villages. We've hurt one another. We've hated one another. That hatred bred a lust for power, and that lust for power created ME...

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.

For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to you...