War Quotes

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

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.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

We are muddled into war.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.