W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.”
“Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.”
“Wars are made by the rich, but it is the poor who fight them, and are impoverished by them.”
“Wars are made to make debt.”
Source: Ezra Pound Speaking
“Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.”
Source: War Talk
“Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.”
Source: War Talk
“Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.”
Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.”
“Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.”
“Wars are not always fought with weapons; sometimes, they are fought with ignorance, hatred, and unconscious bias.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.”
“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.”
“Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.”
“Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.”
“Wars are not started by soldiers but by politicians who have never fought them.”
“Wars are not won by evacuations.”
Source: Their Finest Hour
“Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles”
“Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”
Source: Everfound
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
“Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.”
“Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.”
Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan
“Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.”
“Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.”
“Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.”
“Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.”
“Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.”
Source: The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
“Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.”
“Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.”
“Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Wars are waged by people
who were parented by someone.
Crimes are committed by people
who were parented by someone.
Brutality is inflicted by people
who were parented by someone.
Nations are led by people
who were parented by someone.
Hope, help, and healing are all
shared by people who were
parented by someone.
We, the parents of today, are
that someone for our children,
and our children will one day be
that someone for their children.
We may not be able to eliminate
all war, end all crime, or stop all
brutality, but sowing peace,
kindness, compassion, and
empathy into our children
is the single most powerful
way we can each be someone who
changes the world for the better.”
“Wars are won by heads not hearts.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Wars are won in the mind before they can be won on the field.”
“Wars are won in the will.”
“Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?”
“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Wars aren't won by running.”
Source: To Kill a Kingdom
“Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.”
“Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.”
“Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.”
“Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.”
“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”
“Wars between people cannot be reduced or eliminated as long as the war with nature proceeds quite unconsciously. Both situations of war may ultimately be seen as externalizations of the conflicts and wars within human consciousness. If this is so, then our task becomes one of recognizing and confronting the 'inner enemy,' the inner antagonist. We need to recognize and withdraw the projections of this inner enemy onto external agents or forces—whether this be other human beings or the world of wild nature.”
Source: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
“Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.”
“Wars bring the best out of men, it can b good for some, bad for others but it is the best that man can offer”
“Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.”
“Wars can destroy everything but hope!”
“Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children”
“Wars come and go; politics endure.”
Source: Kushiel’s Legacy