Best water & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.”

People War Water Shapes Angry Prison Violent Fluid Liquid Containers Unleashing

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”

“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”

“Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.”

Giving War Sometimes Moments Causes Water Issues Circumstances Battle Superiority Overflow Drop Of Water

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.”

Love Two War Body Light Stars Water Love Is Air Honey Flash Lightning Drowning Voyages

Book:Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

“I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.”

People Thinking Mean Persons War Helping Might Water Perspective Clean Drinking Someday Frustrated Edits Drinking Water Clean Drinking Water

Author:Jimmy Wales

“If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.”

Ifs Believe Wells War Might Earth Jesus Water Rich Cutting Dying Taxes Lays Torture Eggs If You Believe Tax Cuts Bunnies Migrants Good Words

Author:Bill Maher

“A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.”

Men War Government Water Hurt Democracy Danger Wind Safe Shots Wet Monarchy

Book:Labor, with Preludes on Current Events

Source: Labor, with Preludes on Current Events

“Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.”

Looks War Next Water Resources Army Clean Oil Guarded Clean Water Going To War

Author:Anita Roddick

“Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.”

Source: The Face of War

“The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.”

War Enough Form Turns Water Population Landscape Camps Genocide Devastated Death Camps

Author:Arundhati Roy

“We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.”

World War Water Land Tears Cat War Of The Worlds Tails World War 2 Whales Stranded Bowels Flopping

Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!”

World Stills War Water Enemy War Of The Worlds Destroying World War Ii World War I Equipment Battlefields World War 2 World War 1

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food - which creates the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources, and that is going to accelerate in the future.”

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.”

Source: Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”

Men Mean Littles Long War Water Optimism Upset Threatened

Author:H. G. Wells

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment.”

People War Seems Today Water Environment Air Land Involved Bases Environmental Vietnam Fewer Pollution Warfare Air And Water

Author:Norman Cousins

“We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.”

Thinking World War Country Fighting Courses Speak Nations Water Resources

Author:Tavis Smiley

“If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.”

Ifs War Reading Water Week Middle Paper Boxes Reserves Toilets Battlefields Parachutes Toilet Paper Toothbrushes Reading The Bible

Author:Lauryn Hill

“More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.”

War Today Lost Nations Water Results Half Cutting Products Wall Iraq Ships Thanks Operations Touched Shore Steel Saddam Gross Hussein Imports Superb Flawless Gulf War Cargo Pallets

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.”

Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

“Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.”

Children Two War Water Couple Importance Oil

Author:Alexandra Paul

“I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.”

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