Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with War.
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
Rosamunde Pilcher
The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.
Maximilian Schell
Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.
Toba Beta
The alembic of English tolerance has operated by now on the newer arrivals as well. Their sons have taken part in English life, contributed to English achievement, striven for England's betterment, shed their blood in England's wars.
Cecil Roth
Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.
Teresa R. Funke
I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot.
The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.
Johann Hari
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.
Edward Condon
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame, The fire of love supplies ; While that which often bears the name, Is self in a disguise. True zeal is merciful and mild, Can pity and forbear ; The false is headstrong, fierce and wild, And breathes revenge and war.
John Newton
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
Harry M. Collins
The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.
Leonard Wibberley
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
David Mitchell
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the right side of the war, ever heard let alone answered?
Kristina McMorris
War is the science of destruction.
John Abbott
Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.
From this point on in our lives, she had whispered to him earlier, we will either find or lose our souls.
Michael Ondaatje
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
Tim O'Brien
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
Arthur Ponsonby
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield