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“The hardest part of the battle is yet to come; the battle with ourselves, with our inherited instincts, with our cultivated taste for leisure, with our wrong early training, with our present physical unfitness… God meant the whole rich world of work and play and adventure for women as well as men. It is high time for us to enter into our heritage – that is my feminist faith.”
Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the First Feminist Mass Meeting in any country, New York City, February 1914
“When we see the Greek cities at their heights in the classical era for which we know this culture, ruled either by aristocracies or in some cases democracies, we see cities where such men have taken over and built a state for themselves, and for the purposes of training for battle and supremacy in battle.”
Bronze Age Pervert (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That individuality of action which so strongly characterizes the conduct of our troops in battle, if unguided or misdirected, can but produce confusion. But let the same idea control the mind of every man, let them apply these general principles to the incidents of battle as they arise, and success is certain.”
J. E. B. Stuart (1833–1864) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: General Order No. 26, Cavalry Tactics, July 30, 1863. Letters of Major General James E. B. Stuart (1990)
“General Lee had not been conquered in battle, but surrendered because he had no longer an army with which to give battle. What he surrendered was the skeleton, the mere ghost of the , which had been gradually worn down by the combined agencies of numbers, steam-power, railroads, mechanism, and all the resources of physical science.”
Jubal Early (1816–1894) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at , January 19, 1872. The Campaigns of Gen. Robert E. Lee (Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1872), p. 45
“We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! And although he may be poor, he shall never be a slave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!”
George Frederick Root (1820–1895) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Battle Cry of Freedom" (1862), st. 3
“The battle for women's empowerment goes hand in hand with the battle for the survival of the planet.”
Lilli Gruber (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go and find that proposition that you literally hang your hat on and that is different. Nobody else is talking in this way. And one of the things as well, especially around search, is I remember when we started, you could either fight the data battle or the creativity battle. And data is very expensive to fight, by the way.”
Carrie Rose (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was important to keep it going until Christmas, as we are in the relegation battle. For this battle I need warriors, and they showed me what I wanted to see”
Claudio Ranieri (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In his flight in the year 1254, he could find refuge only at Luceria; where he was welcomed by the Saracens with transports of joy. Before the battle, Manfred sent ambassadors to effect a negotiation. Charles told them, "Go, tell the sultan of Nocera that I desire battle only, and that this very day I will either send him to hell, or he shall send me to Paradise.”
Manfred of Sicily (1232–1266) said by 1266 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J. C. L. de Sismondi, Histoire des Républiques italiennes du Moyen Âge, vol. iii, pp. 153, 347; reported in Michelet, History of France (1882), vol. 1, p. 307
“Battle is the ultimate to which the whole life's labor of an officer should be directed. He may live to the age of retirement without seeing a battle; still he must always be getting ready for it exactly as if he knew the hour of the day it is to break upon him. And then, whether it come late or early, he must be willing to fight — he must fight.”
Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversation with Lew Wallace in Paducah, KY (September, 1861); reported in Lew Wallace: An Autobiography (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1906), ch. 40, p. 344
“The 19th day. At dawn, as the Duke was in the midst of urging on the battle, he was suddenly struck by a stray bullet. The Duke said, "The battle is now at its height — on no account let it be said that I have died." Having spoken these words, he passed away.”
Yi Sun-sin (1545–1598) said by 1598 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, "Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade.”
Leonidas I (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”
Duke Of Wellington (1769–1852) said by 1852 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun." Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war. But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice. I'm astonished by the man who wants purity And yet trembles when the harshness of polishing begin... When a man beats a carpet again and again It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Andrew Harvey (religious writer)
“Strangely, he wasn’t scared at all. He was even more coldly calm, calmly analytical. And he knew that he would have to be if he was to stand a chance to win this war. If he was to win it, his mind would have to be his major weapon; firearms might win a battle, but never the war.”
Fredric Brown (1906–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one wants to fight against fascism and war, the first battle that must be Won is to drive out Trotskyism and its influence from the ranks of the workers, farmers, and intellectuals. Without this victory over every Trotskyist influence, unity in the fight against fascism and war-unity which is the condition for any success is impossible.”
Earl Browder (1891–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“World War I had its Sergeant York; World War II, George Patton. But we have a much more dangerous fighter in our battle with the left, and she is even sometimes dangerous to the other sie.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had come out of the war twice-decorated and with a thoughtful respect for the horrors of combat. He had seen terrible things, participated in terrible things...but that was the nature of war, and it was not something you could enter into halfway. War was a state of mind, war was all or nothing.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harijan (26 November 1938)
“I wish I could keep war from all Nations; but that is beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war. I can at least make clear that the conscience of America revolts against war and that any Nation which provokes war forfeits the sympathy of the people of the United States.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Popolo d'Italia (Feb. 1, 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism, John Strachey (1933) p. 65
“[Lloyd George] told me he did not see how we could get successfully through this war..."It is clear that that damn fool Neville [Chamberlain] never gave a thought to that question - whether we would win - when he declared war. I am not against war, but I am against war when we have no chance of winning.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to A. J. Sylvester, as recorded in Sylvester's diary (24 January 1941), quoted in Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (1975), p. 287
“War is not popular. It may seem popular in the short run, when there appears to be an immediate victory and everyone is gloating but war is not popular. War is not popular. People get killed, and body bags end up coming back. War is very unpopular, and it is not the politically smart thing to do.”
Ron Paul (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you switch on television it's just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills us. And talk shows will kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television. Commercials and — I think there should be real war against commercials, real war against talk shows, real war against "Bonanza" and "Rawhide", or all these things.”
Werner Herzog (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism". We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.”
Sam Harris (born 1967) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sam Harris, "Mired in a religious war", Washington Times (1 December 2004)
“The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise—absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.”
Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.”
Ralph Bunche (1904–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every war already carries within it the war that will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything is smashed. That is why I am so wholeheartedly for a radical end to this madness and why my only hope is in world socialism.”
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (21 February 1944).
“War is not high ideals. War is not noble objectives. War is not gallant heroism. War is not sacrificial devotion.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am old enough to remember the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, when the government fought a "war on poverty." In recent years that war has been transformed by representatives of both major parties into a war on the poor. More important yet, but less reported, is that in the years since Ronald Reagan was elected president, corporate America has waged war against this nation's workers.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the war was a terrible war, but it was a war for human freedom, and if the South had succeeded and if slavery had been extended, the United States, or part of it, might very well have been on the side of Hitler in the Second World War. We would not have been the bastion of freedom we have been in the twentieth century.”
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The war has been variously termed a war of production and a war of machines. Whatever else it is, so far as the United States is concerned, it is a war of logistics.”
Ernest King (1878–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In today's world, where we live, there is no longer someone else’s war. None of you can feel safe when there is a war in Ukraine, when there is a war in Europe. You can't think of the global and close your eyes to the details. Only one thing remains unchanged: contradictions between nations and states are still resolved not by words, but by missiles. Not by word. But by war.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (born 1978) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly (25 September 2019)
“You've got mean, Oriel." She sniffs. "It is the war that's done it to you?" "It's all war," she said. "What is?" "I don't know. Everythin. Raisin a family, keepin yer head above water. Life. War is our natural state." "Well, struggle maybe," said Lester. "No, no, it's war.”
Tim Winton (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our time, I don't believe there can be a full-scale hot war like the Second World War, nor a long Cold War, but a war of a third type. It will be a cyberwar.”
Margarita Simonyan (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why is there this constant talk of war? It's as if [the West] really wants us to destroy this unfortunate Ukraine. In Russia there is no war hysteria. We do have an anti-war movement, but we have no pro-war movement. It's surprising. The Americans say 'no, you must invade. We know it for a fact.'”
Margarita Simonyan (born 1980) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said during a live broadcast of "Sunday Night with Vladimir Solovyev" on April 11, 2021 on the Rossiya-1 television network, quoted in "Even Russian Propaganda Was Hesitant to Claim Kyiv Would Fall in Three Days", Newsw…
“the big war of 1914-1918 was not my war. It was plainly not a war for democracy but for plutocracy; not for peace but for plunder, and to make our country military-minded. It was capitalism's war-not mine.”
Art Young (1866–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not peace, rest, quiet will be esteemed; but the struggle is the war; The war is a beneficent war, a war that is an indication of strength, of health, of exuberance.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paraphrase: We (the U.S) lost the Vietnam War and we didn't do the necessary introspective work of the natural post-war psychological depression on ourselves after the war had ended. Most U.S citizens around at the time didn't learn much from that war.”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cruelties of the Cold War fell particularly hard on the Baltic nations, which during the inter-war period also included Finland and Poland. Having suffered through decades of violence and oppression, we tend to judge the Cold War by emotions. Therefore our view of the post-cold-war Europe differs from that of other European states.”
Valdas Adamkus (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m not massively big on history, but if you watch war films, you learn a lot about strategy there, because in order to win a war, you have to be very strategic. The tactics is the men on the front line, right? But actually, the strategy of how you’re going to win the war is the important part. And I think that’s where war films come really into play.”
Carrie Rose (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The outbreak of the war had nothing to do with individuals. The war had deep roots, including the disruptive effects of rapid industrialization in old feudal societies. ... Experience in the Balkans had taught us that a state can be born in war, and also can be destroyed in war. We wanted to destroy Austria-Hungary.”
Vaso Čubrilović (1897–1990) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in J. Bowyer Bell, Assassin! (1979) p. 44
“At that time, it was war – war against those who had wanted war, against those who deserved nothing but war.”
Paolo Emilio Taviani (1912–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, wither’d is the garland of the war! The soldier’s pole is fall'n; young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.”
Cleopatra (69–30 BC) said by 30 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who is it climbs the summit of the road? Only the beggar bumming his dark load. Who was it cried to see the falling star? Only the landless soldier lost in war. And did a thousand years go by in vain? And does another thousand start again?”
Alun Lewis (1915–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm interrupting my career. It's not like I want my new career in politics. But I'm willing to interrupt it the same way that somebody interrupted their career and joined World War II and went off to fight the Nazis. I don't think that I'm that heroic, and I don't think I'm risking as much as a soldier. But it's the same principle.”
Peter Schiff (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
“Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source