Best real & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.”

Should War Real Form Time Hours Church Written Creation Circumstances Worship Highest Golf Holes Quarters Conferences Eighteen Recreation

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.”

People War Real Deceiving Diplomacy Diplomats Dumbness

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.”

People Has Beens War Real Happens Sound Black White Color Real Life Combat Black And White Vivid Sensory Overload

Author:David Ayer

“When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.”

People Two War Real Hands Political Groups Economic Sake Significance Opposing Robbers

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.”

Two War Real Truth Lying Causes Secret History Events Officials

Author:Honore de Balzac

“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.”

War Real Enjoy Limits Tables Finals Glorious Eggs Breakfast Mail Brutality Daily Mail

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.”

Wells War Real Individual Interest Knowing Produce Willing Pursuit Pursue Block Phrases Abstract Affirmation Assertion Totality Negation

Author:Karl Marx

“To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.”

Believe Children War Real Games I Believe Occupation Stakes Spy Clandestine

Author:Diet Eman

“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals

“The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.”

War Real Country Reason Left Poverty Tragedy Spread Aids Civil War Killers Civilians Hiv Slums Hiv Aids Mozambique Angola

Author:Miriam Makeba

“The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.”

War Real Bigs Games Drug Conviction Prisoner Locks War On Drugs Scams Lock Up

Author:Jerry Brown

“My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”

Ifs War Real Home Interest Hell Democracy Soldier Fascism Hobbies Maintaining Advocating

Author:Smedley Butler

“War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.”

Made War Real Dream Reality Novel Eternal Real Life Fascination

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.”

“A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.”

Giving War Real Claims Foundation Lays Unions Democratic Conviction Consideration Lasting Partnership Conquest Council Nationality Settlement Secured

Author:Norman Angell

“In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.”

War Real Acting Arrows February Sweetheart Broomsticks

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.”

“In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.”

May War Real Problem Chance Succeed Officers One Chance

Author:David Gemmell

“When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate.”

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Author:Paul Gigot

“I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.”

“The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.”

People May War Real House Interest Royal Transitory

Author:Kenneth Waltz

“In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.”

“Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe - England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.”

“I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.”

People Thinking Believe Children War Real Mother Fall Stuff Millions Innocent Bombs

Author:Shakira

“How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.”

People War Real Bigs Morality Tests Treats Helpless Flunking

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist than men. Instead, and exactly like so many of their male countrymen, some women found ways of combining support for the national interest with a measure of self-promotion. By assisting the war effort, women demonstrated that their concerns were by no means confined to the domestic sphere. Under cover of a patriotism that was often genuine and profound, they carved out for themselves a real if precarious place in the public sphere.”

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