I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
Alice Oswald
CultureSchoolWarFrustrationThink
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Bayard Rustin
TrainingI AmWarSlaveryBodyAct
When I'm out there on the mound, I'm fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to stay in the game for a long time. It's war. I see the hitter - I think about what I want to do, but it's a very quick process. Then I attack. It's almost primal.
Matt Harvey
TimeWarGameThinkFightingLong
When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.
Tim Kennedy
CuteFightWarPeopleThinkYou
'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.
Tom Reiss
WarAirDestructionManhattanAttack
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.
Jay Alan Sekulow
TimeWarLawSlaveryConstitution
In times of conflict, our citizens have always been able to rise to the challenge. Maybe no greater example of that ability is found during the onset of World War II.
Chuck Norris
ChallengeWarConflictWorldRise
We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
H. R. McMaster
NatureBestWarThinkMaskTrying
To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?
John Dingell
WarWinThinkYouGoAlways
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare.
Peter Maurer
WarOrganizationWorldPartnerArmy
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen Hawking
LifeWarThoughtEarthRiskOut
In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.
Ryan Zinke
WarYouRiskOrderTakeSome
A world without war is not in the cards.
Martin Van Creveld
WarWorldCardsWithout
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
Douglas Brinkley
MoneyWarWorldPilotWorld War II
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
Alistair Horne
WarWorldNavyVisionaryRight
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
Barbara Mikulski
ResponsibilityWarAmericaBurden
You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.
Angus Deaton
WarSocietyYouFindWrongGroup
I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.
Tim O'Brien
MyselfWarThinkSayCallWould
We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of a comedian is first to entertain. And if you're so inclined, and you have some bigger thought, make sure you express it, because that's a gift.
Tom Smothers
WarChoicesGiftThoughtYouFirst
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Janis Karpinski
IntelligenceWarInformationGoal
But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
Brent Scowcroft
WarRisksStrategyTerrorismCost
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
PeaceWarWorldWillNeverBegin
War is the trade of Kings.
John Dryden
WarKingsTrade
What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.
Peter Schuyler
WarControlRememberOilProtect
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