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Gerry Adams on war
Author: Gerry Adams“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.” -Gerry Adams
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Thomas Frank on war
Author: Thomas Frank“As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a ‘Near Great’ even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.” -Thomas Frank
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Oliver Stone on war
Author: Oliver Stone“I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.” -Oliver Stone
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Luc de Clapiers on war
Author: Luc de Clapiers“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.” -Luc de Clapiers
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Vladimir Nabokov on war
Author: Vladimir Nabokov“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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Joe Biden on war
Author: Joe Biden“The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.” -Joe Biden
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David Bailey on war
Author: David Bailey“I didn’t know a time when there wasn’t a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.” -David Bailey
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Tacitus on war
Author: Tacitus“A bad peace is even worse than war.” -Tacitus
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Stefan Zweig on war
Author: Stefan Zweig“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” -Stefan Zweig
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Elizabeth I on war
Author: Elizabeth I“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.” -Elizabeth I
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Margaret J. Wheatley on war
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley“These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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Daryn Kagan on war
Author: Daryn Kagan“Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” -Daryn Kagan
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Ron Fournier on war
Author: Ron Fournier“Don’t kid yourself. President Obama’s decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States’ ‘position of strength’ in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.” -Ron Fournier
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Abbie Hoffman on war
Author: Abbie Hoffman“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” -Abbie Hoffman
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Charles de Montesquieu on war
Author: Charles de Montesquieu“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.” -Charles de Montesquieu
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Michael Bloomberg on war
Author: Michael Bloomberg“Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” -Michael Bloomberg
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Christopher Marlowe on war
Author: Christopher Marlowe“Accursed be he that first invented war.” -Christopher Marlowe
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R. Lee Ermey on war
Author: R. Lee Ermey“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.” -R. Lee Ermey
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Kevin O’Leary on war
Author: Kevin O’Leary“Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.” -Kevin O’Leary
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Toni Morrison on war
Author: Toni Morrison“Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.” -Toni Morrison
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Tony Benn on war
Author: Tony Benn“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.” -Tony Benn
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Dick Gregory on war
Author: Dick Gregory“And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.” -Dick Gregory
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Pierre Corneille on war
Author: Pierre Corneille“Peace is produced by war.” -Pierre Corneille
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Ezra Pound on war
Author: Ezra Pound“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.” -Ezra Pound