Best war & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.”

Doe War Matter States United Liberty United States Taken Rights Policy Citizens Jew Favors Injury Friendly Cherish Sentiments Resent

Author:James Monroe

“War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.”

War Matter Spirit Force Groups Air Troops Equipment Air Force Morale Artillery

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.”

War Matter Whole Nations Modern Military Citizens Resources Mere Soldier Operations Exception Modern War Military Operations

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!”

Has Beens War Matter Causes Sides Loses Army Noble Both Sides Good Causes Good War Noble Causes Victor's

Book:Ham On Rye

Source: Ham On Rye

“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.”

War Sometimes Matter Transformation Intense Life And Death Stakes Technological Borrowing

Book:The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

Source: The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

“There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.”

People Men Important War Matter States Age Dies Military Confidence Essentials Elements Old Age Rulers Nevertheless Lacking Equipment Starvation Military Equipment

Author:Confucius

“War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.”

May War Matter Evil Military

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.”

War Matter Differences Clear Civilization Terrorism Meaningful Civil War Insurgency

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources”

“There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.”

Trying War Matter Body Enemy One Thing Europe Settling Crush

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“War is like government, a matter of tact.”

War Matter Government Tact

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.”

War Matter Happens Peace No Matter What Caught Navy Naps

Author:Frank Knox

“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.”

World Two War Matter Three Eating Standards Raises Cooking Lifetime Meals

Author:Will Rogers

“Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.”

May War Matter Winning Harder Complexes Burden Diplomacy Momentary Sustaining Follow Through Short Sighted Machismo

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.”

People Humans War Matter Human Beings Moral Dangerous Morality Behavior Intelligent Certainty Apologizing Subjective Halfway

Author:Steve Coogan

“What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”

Mean War Matter Moral Modern Genuine Civil War Consensus Modern Politics

Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.”

“I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.”

War Matter Might Decided Aim No Matter What Method Suicide Add Nuclear Commit Emerging Retribution Nuclear War Unleashing Detente

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.”

War Matter Fighting Winning Impossible

Author:David Gemmell

“We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every person matters, and what really matters is having the strategy and the will to make sure any death is not - is honored by achieving an objective.”

Trying Persons War Matter Running Achieve Danger Strategy Expected Objectives Honored Casualties

Author:George W. Bush

“A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”

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

“You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.”

People Thinking Way Believe War Matter Winning I Believe Enemy Generations Car Right Now Beats Suicide Seeking Revenge These Days Opponents Bombs Resorts

Author:George Clooney

“It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.”

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Author:Bruce Willis

“The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.”

Want War Ends Matter Hard Enough Literature Process Lines Fronts Soldier Destroying

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.”

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world”

Thinking World War Matter Dies Fighting Sides President Stupid Vicious

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“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.”

Stills War Matter Action Political Views Shapes Destruction Hostile

Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.”

War Matter Artist Vision Busy Too Busy

Book:The Best of Marya Mannes

Source: The Best of Marya Mannes

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