War Quotes:

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

- A. A. Gill

topic: Philosophy, War, Men, Moral Philosophy, Humming

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

- A. A. Gill

topic: War, Boys, Air, Admiral, Broadsheet

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Philosophy, War, Animal

It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Christian, War, Caring, Lord Buddha

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

- A. E. Coppard

topic: Atheist, Father, War, Ribald, Black Face

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

- A. E. Housman

topic: Life, War, Lying, Sprung

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

- A. J. Liebling

topic: Children, War, Hero

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

- A. J. Muste

source: "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

topic: Peace, War, Want, Peace Not War

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

- A. J. Muste

source: A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

topic: War, Thinking, Lessons

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

- A. J. Muste

topic: War, Outcomes, Way

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

- A. J. Muste

topic: Peace, War, Dirty, Dirty Business

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

- A. J. P. Taylor

source: A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

topic: War, Army, Weight, Great Army

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: War, Political, Politics

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

- A. J. P. Taylor

source: A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Fighting, Able

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: War, Fighting, Bismarck, Just War

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: War, Break, Inevitable

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: War, Battle, Dice

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

- A. J. P. Taylor

topic: War, World, Firsts, War Of The Worlds, First World War

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: War, Mistake, Book, British History

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

- A. P. Herbert

topic: Money, War, Silly

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

- A. Philip Randolph

topic: War, Impossible, War Propaganda, Cost Of War, Anti War

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

- A. Philip Randolph

topic: War, Winning, Democracy

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

- A. Y. Jackson

topic: War, Artist, Forever, Impressionism

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

- A.J. Cronin

topic: Country, War, Enemy

My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

- A.M. Homes

topic: Jobs, Sex, War, Start Wars, Blow Job

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

- Aaron Allston

topic: War, Lethargy, Ennui

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

- Aaron Huey

topic: War, Mankind

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

- Aaron Huey

topic: War, Names, Faces

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

- Aaron Huey

topic: Children, War, Korea, Medal Of Honor

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

- Aaron Sorkin

topic: War, Worry, Film

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

- Aaron Stanford

topic: War, Thinking, Opposites

I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

- Aasif Mandvi

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Hate, Believe, Being Judged

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

- Abba Eban

source: Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, War, Dark Sarcasm, Abba

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

- Abba Eban

source: "The Impact of the Six-Day War: A Twenty-Year Assessment". Book by Stephen J. Roth, 1988.

topic: War, Unconditional Love, Thinking, Vanquish, Abba

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

- Abba Eban

topic: War, Doubt, Cairo, Miscalculations, Blockades

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

- Abbe Pierre

topic: War, Law, Paris, Canon

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

- Abbe Pierre

topic: War, Technology, Humanity, Cultural Exchange

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

- Abbie Hoffman

topic: Life, War, Robots

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

- Abbie Hoffman

source: Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

topic: Peace, Military, War, Compulsory, Cannibalism

What if when they called a war, no one went?

- Abbie Hoffman

topic: War, What If

Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.

- Abd al-Karim Qasim

source: Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

topic: Patience, Strong, War

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

- Abdallah II

topic: War, Thinking, Middle East

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

- Abdallah II

topic: War, Winning, Lessons

Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.

- Abdullah Gul

source: "Powell backs post-Djindjic reforms", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2003.

topic: Strong, War, Foundation, Strong Foundation

I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.

- Abdullah Ocalan

topic: War, Self, People, Kurds, Ankara

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

source: "Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2007.

topic: Brother, War, Blood, Saudi Arabia, Sectarianism

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.

- Aberjhani

topic: War, Communication, People

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: War, Married, Advise

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

- Abraham Clark

topic: War, Issues, Titles, Gallows, Exalted

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

- Abraham Cowley

source: Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

topic: Hate, War, Gold, Begets

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

- Abraham Flexner

source: Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

topic: Education, Peace, War, Cost Of War, Nigeria Independence

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

- Abraham Flexner

topic: War, United States, Dollars, Warships

Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

- Abraham Foxman

topic: Memories, War, Reality, History And Memory

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Peace, War, Government

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Money, Horse, War

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Party, Acceptance, Inaugural, American Civil War

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Believe, Hard Work, Labor Laws

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, War, People, War On Drugs

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Race, White, Causes Of War, Secession

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Civil War, May

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Light, Honor, Dishonor, Insignificance

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Children, War, Government, Free Government

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, War, Civil War

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Believe, Struggle, Causes Of War, Secession

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, People, Lines, Great American

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Duration, Terrible

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms....

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Army, Gun, Gallant, Bosoms

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Past, Light

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Art, War, America, Orators, Creation Of The World

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Military, War, Thoughtful, Call Of Duty, Good War

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Peace, War, Passing Away, Inaugural Address, American Civil War

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Eye, Civil War

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Office, Favors, Causes Of War, Jurors

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Holiday, Wish

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Children, War, Father

My God! My God! What will the country say?

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, War, Civil War

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Ambitious, Doe

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Wisdom, Religious, War, Faltering, American Voters

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Uniting, Violence

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

- Abraham Pais

source: "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

topic: War, Needs, Caught

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

- Abraham Pais

source: "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

topic: War, Lying, Silly

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

- Abu Abbas

topic: War, Land, Goal, War Plans

Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

- Abu Bakar Bashir

source: "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.

topic: War, Good Things, Should

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.

- Achille Mbembe

topic: Soccer, War, Yesterday

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

- Adam Hochschild

source: "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

topic: Lying, War, Loss, Spendthrift, Belgium

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

- Adam Hochschild

source: "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.

topic: War, Our World, Way, War Of The Worlds, First World War

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

- Adam Michnik

topic: Country, War, Iraq

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

- Adam Savage

topic: Stars, War, Light, War Movie, Star Wars Movie

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

- Adam Schiff

source: "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

topic: War, Blessed, Compassion, Moral Obligation, Generous People

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

- Adam Schiff

topic: War, Home, Iraq

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

- Adam Schiff

topic: War, Inspiration, Humanity, Leadership Vision, Crimes Against Humanity

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

- Adam Schiff

topic: Wisdom, War, Iraq, Conventional Wisdom

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

- Adam Schiff

topic: War, Our World, Cold, Apocalyptic, Cold War

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

- Adam Schiff

topic: War, Allies, United States

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

- Adam Schiff

topic: War, Struggle, Winning, War On Terrorism

Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.

- Adam Young

topic: War, Cost, Causes, Warlords, Vandals

Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

- Adela of Normandy

topic: War, Army, Weapons, Medieval War

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

- Adi Shamir

topic: War, Winning, Battle, Computer Security

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

- Adlai Stevenson I

topic: War, Men, Brave

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

- Adnan Pachachi

topic: Country, War, People, Fragmentation, Political Groups

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

- Adolf Eichmann

source: "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight". Book by Jacob Robinson, p.37, 1965.

topic: War, Fifty

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

- Adolf Eichmann

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, War, Long, Austria

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

- Adolf Galland

topic: War, Winter, Russia

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

- Adolf Galland

topic: War, Airplane, Pilots

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

- Adolf Galland

source: Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

topic: War, Pyramids, World, Colossus, Fighter Pilot

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Bridges, Cities, World War 1, World War Ii

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Ends, Diplomacy, International Affairs, Foreign Relations

Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Home, People, Poland

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Military, War, Enemy, Demoralizing, Sabotage

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Men, Years, World War 2, World War 1

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Purpose, Alliances, Rise To Power, Mein Kampf

Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Wish, Germany, Austria, Internal Affairs

Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Soldier, Battle, Ww2, Dunkirk

I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Giving, Victory, Propagandist

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Fire, World, German History

I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, World, Want

Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Land, Two, Lorraine

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Fall, Hands, Wasteland

Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Defense, Wipe

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Love, War, Love Is

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Order, Decay, Great Nations

It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Europe, World, World War Ii

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Germany, World, World War 2, World Power

Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Soldier, World, Ww2, Wwii

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Restoration, World, Poland, Versailles

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Gentleman, Victory, World War Ii

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, World, War Of The Worlds, Czechoslovakia

You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Doors, Rotten, World War 1, Crashing Down

A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Shining, Victory

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Enemy, World, World War Ii

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Demand, Munich

We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island. (4th February 1945)

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Islands, People, British Empire, Tuberculosis

This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Country, Religious, War, Dissension

Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Thinking, World

I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Names, People

England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Country, War, Military

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, World, Intention, World War 1, World War Two

Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Flower, Simple, Effects Of War

...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation's ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it by the Creator of the universe.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Children, War, Race

If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Crazy, War, Flower, Vermin

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Character, People

The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Fashion, War, Struggle, Unrelenting, Harshness

This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Liars, White

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Thinking, Knights

Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Loss, Men, Old Culture, Mein Kampf

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Mean, Enemy

How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Enemy, Want

The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Letting Go, War, Men, Denominations, Declaring War

And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven-stormer back to Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It requires all the force of a young missionary idea to raise our people up again, to free them from the snares of this international serpent...

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Struggle, Ideas, Mein Kampf, Bolshevism

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Germany, World, World War 2, World War 1

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Truth, War, Drug

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

- Adora Svitak

source: "Adora Svitak Likes French Philosophy, Reads Three Novels A Day, Has Written 400 Short Stories And Champions Feminism And World Peace. She Is 8". www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2006.

topic: War, Ignorant, World

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

- Adrian Carton de Wiart

topic: Fun, War, People

The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

- Adrian Mitchell

topic: Country, War, Reading, Gay Guy

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

- Adrien Brody

topic: War, Safety, Film, Choreography

Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.

- Adrienne Mayor

topic: War, Years, Ideas, Written History, Weaponry

war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.

- Adrienne Mayor

source: Adrienne Mayor (2009). “Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World”, Duckworth Publishing

topic: War, Animal, History, Ancient World, Pathogens

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Inspiring, War, Believe, Insiders, Midwife

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Country, War, People

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Mother, Children, War, Exploitation, Callousness

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Freedom, War, Writing

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

- Aeschines

topic: War, Evil, Enemy

In war, truth is the first casualty.

- Aeschylus

topic: Peace, War, Fighting, Soldiers At War, Modern War

In war the first casualty is the truth.

- Aeschylus

topic: War, Political, Firsts

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

- Aesop

topic: Peace, War, Tyrants

The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist. ("L'antagonisme entre les nationalités perdra toute son acuité le jour où n'existera plus la tendance inique à l'oppression et à la domination, ni le perpétuel danger des menaçants préparatifs de guerre.:;», Fr.

- African Spir

topic: War, Son, Preparation

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

- African Spir

source: "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 55), 1937.

topic: Art, War, Men, Intellectual Development

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

- African Spir

topic: War, Humanity, Cain, Malediction

When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

- African Spir

topic: War, Men, Alcohol, Stifling

So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

- African Spir

topic: Crush, Real, War

A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

- Afshin Molavi

topic: Weed, Integrity, War, Provincialism, Tehran

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Peace, War, Winning, World War One, Peace War

...all human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.

- Agnivesh

source: Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

topic: God, Spiritual, War, Spiritual Beings, Disempowerment

"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."

- Ahmad Shukeiri

topic: War, Army, Effort

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

- Ahmed Ben Bella

topic: Country, War, Easy

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

- Akbar Ganji

topic: War, Weapons, Way

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Real, War, Enemy

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

- Akshay Kumar

topic: War, Years, People, Versus, Prisoner Of War

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

- Al Capone

topic: War, World, Lists

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

- Al Franken

topic: War, Rights, Liberty

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

- Al Gore

topic: War, Winning, Sight, American Troops

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

- Al Gore

topic: War, Principles, Tasks, Saving The Earth

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

- Al Gore

topic: Fashion, War, Sea, Renewable Resources, Civilisation

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, War, Winning

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

- Al Murray

topic: War, Years, History

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

- Al Pacino

topic: Mother, Dad, War, War Of The Worlds, College Education

War and marketing have many similarities.

- Al Ries

topic: War, Marketing, Similarity

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Peace, Military, War, Critters

Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."

- Al-Nawawi

topic: War, Soul, Enmity

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, War, Years

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Asia, Scared, Gulf War

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

- Alain Badiou

topic: War, Risk, Impossibility

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

- Alan Alda

topic: War, Hell, Ask Me

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.

- Alan Bennett

topic: War, People, Mourning, Lest We Forget

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

- Alan Bennett

topic: War, Instinct, Scope

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

- Alan Colmes

topic: War, Believe, Iraq, War On Terror, I Still Believe

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one.

- Alan Coren

source: "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

topic: War, Way, Lasts

10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

- Alan Coren

topic: War, Bed, Three

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

- Alan Cranston

topic: War, Enemy, Population, Unclear

The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.

- Alan Cranston

topic: Military, War, Government, Russian Military