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Wars Quotes (page 82)

Herodotus quote: "In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order..."
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. Herodotus
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? W. E. B. Du Bois
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H. G. Wells
Oscar Wilde quote: "In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the..."
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. Oscar Wilde
George W. Bush quote: "I am a war president."
I am a war president. George W. Bush
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live. Savitri Devi
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he... Paulo Coelho
many historians contend that Laozi actually lived in the 4th century BC, which was the period of Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while others contend he was a mythical figure. Laozi was credited with Lao Tzu
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons. Michael Ondaatje
The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future. Paulo Coelho
Character? is a habit, the daily choice of right overwrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity inpeace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. Charles Wilson
nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians. Leo Tolstoy
For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander. Ernest Hemingway
And one there was, a dreamer born, Who, with a mission to fulfill, Had left the Muses' haunts to turn. The crank of an opinion-mill, Making his rustic reed of song. A weapon in the war with wrong,... "A Tent on the Beach John Greenleaf Whittier
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value. Arthur Schopenhauer

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