Best understood & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.”

War Would Be Bird Understood Peculiar Yellow Representation

Author:Kevin Powers

“Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.”

World War Humanity Religious Blood Sea Understood

Author:Irena Sendler

“I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing?...Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.”

Want War Done Hell Understood Police Raises Ems Veteran Vietnam War

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.”

War Individual Community Accepting Danger Glory Understood Opponents Acquire Ardor

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.”

Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

“Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.”

“Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.”

Ifs World Looks Said War Mother Secret Understood Brilliant Invites Anti War Teresa

Author:Jack Canfield

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.”

Wells War Mother Understood Coffee Cups Veteran Coffee Cup Guerrillas

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?”

Men Way War Country Able Virtue Understood Serving Slaying

Author:Marie Corelli

“I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.”

Knows Humans Kind War Play Hate Acting Enemy Forever Understood Theater Human Life Zone Deceit Stains War Zones Hearsay

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.”

War Understood Instinct Establishment Scope Respectable

Author:Alan Bennett

“There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite, And made night gorgeous and morning fair; And all that had sense to reason knew That bloody drama must be gone through. Some sat and watched how the action veered-- Waited, profited, trembled, cheered-- We saw not clearly nor understood, But yielding ourselves to the masterhand, Each in his part as best he could, We played it through as the author planned.”

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Author:Alan Seeger

“With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.”

Knows Want Writing Trying Book Ideas War Felt Bits Imagination Understood Tiny Score Korean Korean War

Author:Linda Sue Park

“We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.”

War Understood Bloodshed

Author:Fred Hampton

“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. Seeing this war that could end with both lives being lost, or both lives being made, gave me an enlightenment of life itself. It sparked my whole mind to a whole other level of living. And if I never would have seen it, I never would have understood life. I never would have appreciated life.”

Ifs Mind Made War Ends Whole Lost Levels Seeing Taught Baby Lessons Enlightenment Understood Appreciated Womb

Author:RZA

“We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.”

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.”

War Stars Our Lives Understood

Author:Jake Lloyd

“I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.”

Thinking Different War Light Wish Gone Understood Vietnam

Author:Oliver Stone

“I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.”

War Building Office Understood Bombs Vietnam Never Quit Labs Office Buildings

Author:Don DeLillo

“I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.”

War Today Cold Understood Cold War Globalization Going To Work

Book:The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

Source: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.”

War Feelings Faces Ability Creative Knowing Awareness Produce Habit Discipline Battle Understood Warrior Worthwhile Daring Considering Scope Exceed Transforming Astonishment

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!”

World War Ends Remember Understood Forgotten War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Carnage

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.”

Years Firsts War Lasts Three Stars Understood Crap Formative Years

Author:Nick Frost

“Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.”

People Ifs War Artist Courses Understood Radical Journalist Collaboration Academia

Author:Sasa Stanisic

“I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.”

People Thinking Important War Gone Records Crime Drug Understood Criminals Smoking Jail Marijuana War On Drugs

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.”

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Author:Judith Butler

“It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.”

People Firsts Wells War Shows Actors Stars Five Car Members Understood First Time Rain Casts Willingness Popularity Invited Boston Skeptical November Parades Antiques Cast Members

Author:John Ratzenberger

“The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.”

“The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”

“War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.”

War States Hands Humanity Speak Causes Goal Natural My Own Known Cost Understood Worthy This Day Yield Unhealthy Imposition

Author:Steven Erikson

“America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.”

People World Long Said War Reason America Hours Behinds Horror Paper Understood Leaving Profit Lifestyle Neglect Swings Papers Rushing Long Hours Horror Of War

Book:The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class…. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don’t want anybody else to know about it.”

People Knows Want Should Long War Real Happens Fighting Class Conscious Understood Bitter

Book:At War with Asia

Source: At War with Asia

“....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States.”

“It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.”

“When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.”

War Care Fall Hurt Watches Saws Understood Agony Wounded Being Hurt

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.”

Men Looks War Helping Lying Fall Speak Language Enemy Understood Standing Fellows Soldier Grass Agony Bullets Fellow Man Sergeants German Soldiers

Author:Libba Bray

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