W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it.”
Source: The Chase
“War and Innocents is a historically accurate drama based on a true story that spans three decades and weaves through five countries in Europe and the United States. The novel is about human survival and the fight for normalcy during harrowing.”
Source: War and Innocents: A Novel of the 1920's Through WWII
“War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.”
“War and marketing have many similarities.”
“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“War and peace are not separate compartments. Peace depends on threats and force; often peace is the crystallisation of past force.”
Source: The Causes of War
“War and peace both are manifestations of human will - whatever is your will, so will be the manifestation.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.”
“War and peace. There are blurred lines in the realities of both. A separation anxiety as the paradigm shifts from the air that a sniper wears on his face (real life, entertainment for the masses or the propaganda machine you decide), to the blueprint of an assassination in a driveway (Chris Hani lying in a pool of his own blood). You know that we cannot eat stones but we can burn, butcher, necklace, murder, forcibly remove and displace entire families, races of different faiths in the name of apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko and Chris Hani instruments of change, war, tolerance or peace. The Romantics got it right before anyone else did. Truth is beauty. The truth is South Africa is not cool anymore.”
“War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.”
“War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.”
Source: Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982
“War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition.”
“War and terrorism not only perpetuate the rift between the two peoples, they polarize sentiment in such a way as to strengthen the determination of each to survive at any cost.”
“war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.”
“War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness”
“War and, apparently, hurricanes are very good for the oil business. But I've got to believe at a certain point, as a nation, we're going to go in a different direction toward an increased sense of personal responsibility, a lowering of each individual's carbon footprint and a real collaborative effort to help sustain our planet.”
“War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.”
Source: Northrop Frye on Modern Culture
“War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention.”
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.”
Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off. This is puerile, misleading, and degrading. In stories, it evades any solution but violence and offers the reader mere infantile reassurance. All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the “right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.”
Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.”
“War ate a great a great deal and war grew fat and rich. War is a monster who empties men's pockets, coin by coin, before devouring the men themselves, so that nothing is lost and all is changed, which is the primary law of nature, as one learns later on. And when war has eaten its fill, when it is sated to the point of vomiting it, it continues its skillful pickpocketing, always taking from the same people, the same pockets. It's a habit acquired in peacetime.”
Source: Levantado do Chão
“War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh
“War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.”
“War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.”
“War begins when humanity ends.”
“War begins where humanity ends.”
“War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel
“War between free-will and predestination makes
the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
Source: Physics and Politics, Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of
“War breeds many sins (…)”
Source: Circe
“War brings about resolution for we've seen history repeat itself. Who respect a humble, peaceful negotiation between a colony subjected to its supremacy?
None! Blood is accepted, violence is respected & war is honored.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“War brings out the ugliest nature of our creations and ourselves.”
Source: The Dreams of the Descendants
“War brings out the ugliest side of humanity regardless of ethnicity, creed or location.”
Source: Tajrish
“War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.”
“War brings spoils for everyone.”
“War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.”
“War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.”
“War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.”
“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
“War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.”
Source: Fact and Fiction
“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
Source: Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung
“War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.”
“War can protect; it cannot create.”
Source: Science and Philosophy
“War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.”
“War can set us back centuries, but sometimes it is necessary to correct the course of mankind.”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.”
“War can't give life, it can only take it away.”