Top 471 War Quotes

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

John Conyers

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Townsend Harris

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

John Oliver

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

John Boyne

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Umberto Eco

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

Richard Engel

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

Jon Anderson

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

John Pomfret

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Camille Paglia

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