War and Peace quotes and sayings

Nothing unites the english like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father Who Art in Heaven.'

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of your fellow man.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Behold Galvatron. And, these shall be your minions: Scourge, the tracker, and his huntsmen, the Sweeps; Cyclonus, the warrior, and his armada.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

As long as power flows through any of my circuits Megatron, I'll fight you.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

All war is based on deception.

All war is deception.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?