War Quotes - Page 401

Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And so hope lies in the fact that little by little, even if the American people can be fooled, even if they continue to be fooled in the 2004 presidential election, they will gradually learn, as they have learned - for instance, in the Vietnam War and turned against the Vietnam War.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But, alas, since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of- war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.

Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.