Explore Quotes on War

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

I think war should be illegal.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Every war has its demons.

Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty grim and grisly. Audience members may feel like prisoners of war forced to watch a training-torture film.

In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son of a colonel in the Army of the Confederacy.

Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.

In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your cause.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war, everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars; they're not war experts.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.