War Quotes

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Ambrose Bierce

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

George Orwell

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

Jerry Hall

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

George Orwell

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Orson Scott Card

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Karl Von Clausewitz

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

Jay Leno

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

George McGovern

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Julia Child

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

Bianca Jagger

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

Fareed Zakaria

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Sharon Stone

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

James A. Garfield

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

George Orwell

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What our sword has won in half a year, our sword must guard for half a century.

Helmuth Graf Von Moltke

The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

Christopher Hitchens

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Bertrand Russell