Best 17621 quotes in «war quotes» category

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own criminality and toward real or fictitious devils abroad. Wars have therefore proved to be extremely useful in propping up the political class and preserving it from the public resistance and rebellion that might otherwise have arisen.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

In war, good guys always become bad guys.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

In war the first casualty is the truth.

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.

In violence, we forget who we are

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.