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“Churchill owed more, and admitted that he owed more [to Ismay] than to anybody else, military or civilian, in the whole of the war.”
Hastings Ismay (1887–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Colville, John. Winston Churchill and His Inner Circle. New York: Wyndham Books, 1981. p. 161
“If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan, who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.”
Hans Bethe (1906–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When this war is over and more than two million Negro soldiers, whose minds have been filled and poisoned with political and social equality stuff, return and ‘hell breaks out’ all over the country, I think I’ll get more help in settling the Negroes in Africa.”
Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech to the Mississippi State legislature on March 22, 1944
“All I can say is this: I know something of what it is to be hunted by the death and destruction of war. I see in your father’s eyes much of what I have felt, but worse. My personal opinion is that the things he sees are more likely a reflection of his past than any mystical experience.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All conflicts are essentially economic in nature…Money is behind every war,” Au-nak continued. “Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can’t civilize war,” Dalinar said. “There’s no painting it up and making it pretty.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I…don’t feel like I’ve won.…” “Welcome to war, Evi,” Dalinar said, heading toward the door. “There are no unequivocal wins. Just victories that leave fewer of your friends dead than others.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, in fact I was almost single-handed in protesting about holding the prisoners of war. It was largely on the pressure of Mujibur Rahman that Mrs Gandhi was holding them. Because she obviously recognised Bangladesh and his (Mujibur's) stand was clear: Let them recognise Bangladesh as an independent state and then we will free them. And that's what we did later.”
Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is easy to start a war, but its end is decided by will-o-the-wisp, which is so effective in deceiving travelers on this road!”
Guity Novin (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With this horrendous murder of the Jews we have lost the war. We have brought an indelible shame upon ourselves, a curse that cannot be lifted. We deserve no mercy, we are all guilty together.”
Wilm Hosenfeld (1895–1952) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16 June 1943; attributed by Richard J. Evans in "Why Did Stauffenberg Plant the Bomb?", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 January 2009.
“Do what you want, but be prepared in that case to be ruled rather than to rule others... Soft countries breed soft men. For it is not possible for the same land to bear both wonderful fruits and men who are good at war.”
Cyrus the Great (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Given a clear course and that most rare of national qualities, common sense, physical science can abolish the struggle for existence so far as concerns food and . But so far the pearls of science have been cast before swine, who have given us in return millionaires and s, armaments and the desolation of war.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.”
Ralph Barton Perry (1876–1957) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Non-Resistance and The Present War - A Reply to Mr. Russell," International Journal of Ethics (April 1915), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 307-316
“I'll make It right At any cost I fought The war And almost lost I'll be back In your arms soon”
Eamon (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan.”
Richard Holbrooke (1941–2010) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words, said to his Pakistani surgeon (13 December 2010), as reported in The Washington Post (14 December 2010).
“So this,” he said, “is the excitement and glory of war! I’ll never believe a ballad singer again.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was right? A man should live justly—but too often it was hard to say which was the road of justice. At any rate, this war was not a struggle of evil against good, black against white; it was a fight between many human beings, none of whom was wholly bad or wholly good.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your trouble is, the Old Faith reinforces every wish to kill that war has roused in you.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, everybody got stupid now and then, especially in war.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then re-united to the friends with whom vve took sweet counsel upon earth, we shall recount our toil, only to heighten our ecstasy; and call to mind the toil and the din of war, oniy that, with a more bounding throb and a richer song, we may fee! and celebrate the wonders of redemption.”
Henry Melvill (1798–1871) said by 1871 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war.”
China Miéville (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. UK: Oxford University Press, 1975. p.175”
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.”
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.”
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would rather have my children die, than live in disgrace, jeered at. My children stand no chance in Germany after the war.”
Magda Goebbels (1901–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to record my deep conviction that our Australian story should fill our hearts with pride and our eyes with tears. It is a story of the dispossessed and the outcast, redeemed through the innate goodness of humanity—a society challenged by nature, tested by war, enlarged by other cultures and blessed by such peace, prosperity and tolerance that we are now the envy of the earth.”
Tony Abbott (born 1957) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First speech of Tony Abbott to Australian Parliament, 1994.
“Urban reality is primarily about trade and commerce, with a nearly total dependence on support from external areas for continued existence. To guarantee such an artificial subsistence, city fathers turn inevitably to war, that chronic civilizational staple.”
John Zerzan (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women — Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice — who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Libya: A War of the Womb,” WorldNetDaily.com, April 8, 2011.
“If regular visits with prostitutes kept the political class from launching trillion-dollar war- and welfare programs, and financing Fanny, Freddy and the Fed—I would personally contribute to a prostitution fund for Washington whores. The prostitutes would be the patriots.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Uncle Sam turns tricks (& stiffs sex workers),” RT, May 11, 2012.
“The glue of American togetherness is gone, replaced by a flimsy, fluid, and thoroughly fake unity peddled by politicians. ‘Ideas’ they call it. On the one day, it's a crusade for democracy; on the next, it's a war against racism.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ilana Mercer on multiculturalism, political correctness, and more,” The Washington Times (interview), January 28, 2013.
“[T]rade, not democracy, is the best antidote to war.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Warmongers: Not Looking Out For Us" WorldNetDaily.com, September 26, 2013.
“Conservatives question government programs. War is a government program. If they hope to retain a modicum of philosophical integrity, conservatives will have to include a critique of the state's warfare machine in their case against its welfare apparatus.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Praying to the Military Moloch," Economic Policy Journal, June 6, 2014.
“Said Saint Augustine, 'The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.' The Republican Party under Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq. To embark on the good, the GOP must come clean about the bad.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Making America great means exposing 'W'," Praag.org, February 20, 2016.
“We do know. We can say for sure. And we have all the documents. George W. Bush lied America into war.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump called Bush a liar & he won South Carolina (Nevada, too)," The Unz Review, February 27, 2016.
“Those gathered at the Annual Correspondents' Dinner, or their Christmas party, are not the country's natural aristocracy, but its authentic Idiocracy. No matter how poor their predictive powers, no matter how many times they get it wrong—in war and in peace—the presstitutes always find time for this orgy of self-praise.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." The American Thinker, May 8, 2017.
“The anatomy and workings of the Deep State are reflexive, rather than a matter of collusion and conspiracy. Simple psychology—human nature at its worst—sees government jobs and programs, war and welfare alike, protected in perpetuity and at all costs by the administrators of government jobs and programs.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elon Musk, Et al.: The Corporate Arm Of The Deep State," Townhall.com, June 3, 2017
“The tools threatening President Trump with impeachment have one bag of tricks stuffed with power tools: they audit, indict, arrest, bomb, change regimes. They don't make profitable business deals; they tax them. They don't make peace; they wage war.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump Fends Off 'Showboat' Comey And The Federal Zombies," The American Thinker, June 9, 2017.
“The manufacturing of Fake News by the Deep State, circa 2017, is of a piece with the anatomy of the ramp-up to war in Iraq, in 2003. Except that back then, Republicans, joined by diabolical Democrats like Hillary Clinton, were the ones dreaming up Homer Simpson's Third Dimension.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The War On Trump: A Guide For Conservatives, Libertarians & Liberals," The Liberty Conservative, June 17, 2017
“No war makes Johnny McCain a sad boy.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Finally, A War John McCain Doesn't Love," Mises Wire, October 26, 2017.
“To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available … in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.”
Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.”
Yoko Ono (born 1933) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 August 2009.
“We're going to treat them [FOX News] the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”
Anita Dunn (born 1958) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times interview, October 11, 2009.
“The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.”
Afrikan Spir (1837–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has rather, on the contrary, brought them to a more perfected refinement in the art of killing.”
Afrikan Spir (1837–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.”
Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War stories aren't really anything more than stories about people anyway.”
Michael Herr (1940–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source