War Quotes - Page 293

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.

Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched

Love between a man and woman is war.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.

We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.