W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?”
“War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.”
Source: A Rumor of War
“War, the World's Only Hygiene”
Source: Mafarka the Futurist: An African Novel
“War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.”
Source: Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
“War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.”
“War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.”
Source: Oppression and Liberty
“War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“War,--the trade of barbarians!”
“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”
“War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?”
“War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.”
“War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.”
“War: A by-product of the arts of peace.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”
“War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.”
“War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
“War: that mad game the world so loves to play.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“War? War is an organized bore.”
“Warboss Badthug: Sneaky gitz! They’re kounter-attacking our kounter-attack!”
Source: Deff Skwadron
“Warcraft as a film suprises me a lot of and I really like it.”
“Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.”
“Ward had a big presence when he was around, a scary one that could suck the air out of a room. He could lose control of his temper and all hell could break loose.”
Source: TREE OF LIVES: My rocky path out of the Wildwoods
“Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.”
Source: The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes
“WARD: I’ll be home in time for dinner, honey.
JUNE: Alright—I’m pregnant—Have a fine day at work, dear.
WARD exits… WARD reenters.
JUNE: Did you forget something, dear?
WARD: What did you say?
JUNE: I asked if you’d forgotten anything—”
Source: June Cleaver Sexual Deviant
“Ward off the comforted path paved smooth to allow a glide. Rather challenge one’s instincts by traveling the primitive and unexplored. Then, will you grow.”
“Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.”
“Wardens Küsse waren stürmisch und leidenschaftlich und doch sanft, als wäre ich die kostbarste Waffe, die er jemals in den Händen gehalten hatte.”
“Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones and samples to build these huge sounds. Sometimes just a sound can trigger words or melodies. I don't have a romantic notion about the past; with Wardruna I wanted to create something new using something old.”
“Ware vrijheid is vrij zijn van de angst om niet perfect te zijn”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“Waren alle Zwillinge so, dass sie sich verhielten, als ob sie mit einem Gehirn denken würden? Manchmal konnte das verdammt irritierend sein. Ich zog die Stirn in Falten und betrachtete sie. „Übt ihr das manchmal, wenn ihr alleine seid – den Gedankengang des anderen zu beenden? Oder ist das reines Talent, um mich sprachlos zu machen?”
Source: Glasgow RAIN: Küsse im Regen
“Waren sie nicht alle Reisende, die wussten, dass die eigene Existenz im Angesicht des Universums so flüchtig war wie ein Boxenstopp an der Autobahn?”
Source: Das Geschenk
“Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.”
“Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.”
“Warfare cannot be humanized.”
Source: Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity
“Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.”
“Warfare has changed, no doubt. The king and queen of battle are no longer the artillery and infantry. Now surprise is king, and speed is queen.”
“Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!”
Source: Che: A Memoir
“Warfare is a weapon of war.”
“Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.”
“Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic,
psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the established
authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.”
Source: Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency
“Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!”
Source: The Joyful Wisdom
“Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.”
“Warga negara yang baik menyadari bahwa garis-garis yang selama ini membentuk hidup mereka sebanarnya imajiner dan mudah diseberangi.”
Source: Warm Bodies
“Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.”