951 private quotes tagged war

“There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.”— Andrew Cuomo

“All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.”— Gary Bauer

“This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.”— Jack Nicklaus

“One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.”— Terry Eagleton

“The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.”— Bob Schieffer

“What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.”— Louis Farrakhan

“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”— Wendell Phillips

“I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.”— Harold Pinter

“When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.”— Daisaku Ikeda

“I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.”— Nicolas Sarkozy

“It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.”— Maya Lin

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”— Maya Lin

“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.”— Cyril Connolly

“I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.”— Dan Rather

“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.”— Saul Bellow

“I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.”— Nancy Pelosi

“I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.”— King Abdullah II

“I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.”— Walter Mosley

“The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.”— Jim Ramstad

“I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.”— Harold Pinter

“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”— Bernard Baruch

“You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.”— James Hillman

“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

“With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.”— Mira Nair

“Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.”— Graham Greene