W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“War is a proof that idea has boundary.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.”
“War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service”
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.”
Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
“War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
“War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.”
“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”
“War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.”
“War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.”
“War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?”
“War is a smell -- a smell of filth, a smell of sweat, a smell of flesh, a smell of blood, a smell of death; war is a smell that never goes away.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.”
“War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“War is a specific product of civilization.”
“War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.”
“War is a terrible, bloody thing.”
Source: The Patriot's Daughter
“War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.”
“War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.”
Source: Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front
“war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.”
Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
“War is a trade of kings.”
“War is a violent thing but its purpose is often to protect your own, and to ultimately bring peace. Sometimes you have to go to war to move forward and past suffering, to get closer to our natural state as humans. That of equilibrium and well-being."
Trisha simply nodded. The only time Esha ever lectured was when she'd seen something and she was trying to tell you what she'd seen.
"When it's time to fight, it's okay to fight," Esha said. "Even if sometimes your biggest enemies may be hiding inside you. Not everyone who fights you is your enemy.”
Source: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”
“War is a worthless action.”
“War is about people. Even when you're killing them.”
Source: Hexarchate Stories
“War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.”
Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
“War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.”
“War is all and king of all”
Source: The Sacred Band
“War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.”
“War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.”
“War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.”
“War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.”
Source: Guerrilla Warfare
“War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.”
Source: Blood Song
“War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.”
Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.”
“War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.”
Source: On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles
“War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.”
“War is an admission of failure”
Source: The Folding Knife
“War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula”
“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.”
Source: A Fable
“War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.”
“War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as though you were merely processing credit card applications. [Instead,] the information you're processing is that an incoming missile is 15 kilometers away, now 10 kilometers away, now 5 kilometers. You have to separate yourself psychologically from the fact that your mortal existence may well end. That is the ancient reality of war.”
“War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.”
“War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.”
Source: Dominion
“War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.”
Source: Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
“War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.”
Source: The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963
“War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.”
“War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work