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Herbert Read on war
Author: Herbert Read“My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.” -Herbert Read
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Mario Puzo on war
Author: Mario Puzo“He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.” -Mario Puzo
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P. D. James on war
Author: P. D. James“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.” -P. D. James
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Daisaku Ikeda on war
Author: Daisaku Ikeda“Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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Maya Lin on war
Author: Maya Lin“I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.” -Maya Lin
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Kevin Costner on war
Author: Kevin Costner“We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It’s a delusion to think it’s gone away.” -Kevin Costner
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John Foster Dulles on war
Author: John Foster Dulles“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.” -John Foster Dulles
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Aung San Suu Kyi on war
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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Ramman Kenoun on war
Author: Ramman Kenoun“In war, there are no winners.” -Ramman Kenoun
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Larry Hagman on war
Author: Larry Hagman“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.” -Larry Hagman
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Elton John on war
Author: Elton John“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.” -Elton John
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Diane Kruger on war
Author: Diane Kruger“Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War – both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There’s a pulse to it.” -Diane Kruger
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Iain Duncan Smith on war
Author: Iain Duncan Smith“What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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Dennis Miller on war
Author: Dennis Miller“What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign.” -Dennis Miller
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Haruki Murakami on war
Author: Haruki Murakami“My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.” -Haruki…
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Rand Paul on war
Author: Rand Paul“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.” -Rand Paul
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George Galloway on war
Author: George Galloway“I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.” -George Galloway
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Karl Von Clausewitz on war
Author: Karl Von Clausewitz“War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.” -Karl Von Clausewitz
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Herodotus on war
Author: Herodotus“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.” -Herodotus
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Daniel Morgan on war
Author: Daniel Morgan“As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.” -Daniel Morgan
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James Cagney on war
Author: James Cagney“You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a…
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will.i.am on war
Author: will.i.am“We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don’t control that. If politicians want a war we don’t control that. Acts of terrorism, we can’t control them.” -will.i.am
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Jonathan Sacks on war
Author: Jonathan Sacks“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” -Jonathan Sacks
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Gene Tierney on war
Author: Gene Tierney“I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.” -Gene Tierney
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Donald Berwick on war
Author: Donald Berwick“Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let’s talk about the patient. The patient doesn’t need a war.” -Donald Berwick