W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“War is science of destruction.”
“War is simple, direct, and ruthless.”
“War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.”
“War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.”
“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.”
“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.”
Source: What It Is Like To Go To War
“War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.”
“War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops”
“War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.”
“War is sweet to them that know it not.”
“War is sweet to those who have never fought.”
Source: The Catastrophic History of You and Me
“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”
“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”
Source: Handbook of the Militant Christian
“War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.”
“War is sweet to those who never tried it.”
“War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.”
Source: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009
“War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.”
“War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.”
Source: the female eunuch
“War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption that the best man will win is not at all justified. It might equally be argued that the worst, the most unscrupulous man will win, although history will continue the absurd game by finding him after all the best man.”
Source: the female eunuch
“War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.”
Source: In Times Like These
“War is the biggest tax hike ever; if this is
properly understood many would stop
warring. - On War and Personal Finances”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“War is the business of barbarians.”
“War is the currency of political power.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.”
“War is the enemy of all mankind.”
“War is the enemy of both men and women, it kills men’s pride and shatters women’s dignity.”
Source: Entangled Lives
“War is the evolution of a brawl.”
“War is the extreme expression of division between people… but people are beguiled into this catastrophic trap by countless tiny steps of division. It begins way back in the virtuous little dissociations of oneself from the weaknesses that are all too evident in one’s neighbor.”
Source: Water at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer
“War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
Source: White Noise
“War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.”
“War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.”
“War is the greatest failure of mankind.”
“War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.”
“War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.”
“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.”
“War is the Health of the State.”
Source: The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918
“War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.”
Source: The world of Randolph Bourne: an anthology edited
“War is the highest form of modern art.”
“War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“War is the invention of the power-hungry and soulless.”
Source: A Drop of Venom
“War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.”
“War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause.”
“War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.”
“War is the most profitable business on earth”
Source: Beyond All Recognition
“War is the most readily available form of chaos.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“War is the national industry of Prussia.”