Quotes about Wars

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

If you make a direct argument against the war, it bounces back at you, ... While certain modern works on [wars] go to the head or are powerful as documentaries, this I think goes to the heart... And that is more dangerous, stronger.

Roberto Benigni

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Colman Mccarthy

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars.

Mike Dirnt

I was playing no matter what. There was no way I was missing this game. Those were my first two catches of the season and they were touchdowns. We wanted to win this game for the (veterans) who fought in all those wars for us.

John Mccauley

For me, it's sort of a remembrance of 'Star Wars' pod racing.

Peter Diamandis

After the revolution, four soldiers from that war settled in Rochester, ... We start with them and go into the War of 1812, and the Toledo war, which was a border dispute between Michigan and Ohio. Then we go into the Black Hawk War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the two world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Persian Gulf wars and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

David Harrell

You might have a senior that loves to read and they might share an appreciation of an author's work with a student. In Hanover we had a young man who likes history and he was matched up with a senior who has lived through several wars.

Val Sullivan

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy De Maupassant

If you try to categorize this as a gay movie, then it's the 'Star Wars' of gay movies.

Ray Price

He was involved in some way in the gang wars up until the time of his arrest. Had he been in custody, the events of last night couldn't have occurred.

Simon Overland

The United Nations is based on principles, embodied in the U.N. Charter, that require its leadership, especially the secretary-general, to stand and defend its principles against those trying to force the United Nations to become part of illegal wars, to endorse illegal occupations, or to ignore looming genocides.

Phyllis Bennis

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Fred Woodworth

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

Julian Glover

This year's winners showed extraordinary initiative and creativity while attempting to tell stories of how wars and internal conflicts impact the lives of everyday people. Journalism as a public service was the Kurt Schork tradition, and this year's winners exemplify his legacy.

Nicholas Lemann

The DRC has been an outstanding example of that for seven years. We've seen wars that have led to the deaths of millions of people, and yet it is rarely reported in the Western press.

Mark Lattimer

Wars such as that which has occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

There will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a PLANNED Marxist economy and total and meek ENSLAVEMENT-in the name of PEACE.

Taylor Caldwell

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Harry Dean Stanton

We're working on two Star Wars TV series, so it's not over yet, ... I also have a feeling that, since George loves to tinker with his films, one day when I'm old he'll wake me and say (speaks in an old voice), 'It's time to rework Star Wars ? one ... more ... time. ' At least, that's my nightmare.

Rick Mccallum

I've been through four wars. I never, never felt like leaving before. Now, life in Iraq has become unsafe. I don't feel safe in my own bedroom — or in the whole country.

Um Mustafa

It is shameful that Africa resorts to weapons whenever there is a dispute. Unfortunately, we turn all our differences into wars, which gives an opportunity for foreign interference.

Muammar Qadhafi

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

John Knowles

We've got sales stuff up at the front of the store that's just kind of flying. We've got sales stuff in the middle of the store that's just going. We got a whole bunch of new Star Wars stuff, all kinds of new games, and it's just flying off the shelves.

Mark Peterson

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Arthur Hardy

Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

Conan O'brien

When I heard the Americans ripped down the statue of Saddam I was happy because I thought we were finished with his stupid wars.

Ali Jabar

Guild Wars was a huge success in Europe, topping charts all across the continent. The success of the weekend shows that many of those players are still very much active and eager to experience the next campaign in this ground-breaking series.

Max Brown

[Rick McCallum, who served as producer on the recent Star Wars films, revealed to Now Playing Magazine some of the details of the two upcoming TV series based on the franchise created by George Lucas.] The live-action television series is something we're planning for just at the beginning of 2007, ... We're just starting to interview writers and trying to really figure out which direction [to go].

Rick Mccallum

But I think the opposite is true, that this most extreme act of violence was internalized in some way in this country. ... There was soul-searching, ostensibly, but in the end the assassination became a tool in our culture wars.

Yoram Peri

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Gerald Brenan

We fought your wars with all our heartsYou've sent us back in body partsYou took our wills with the truth you stoleWe offer prayers for your long lost soul.

Serj Tankian

I haven't seen it like this for three years. We've seen bidding wars in rentals this year.

Dianne Saatchi

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Anwar Sadat

We'll have interpretive signage along the trail that will tell you about the early development. About the Seminole wars, about the citrus industry, how the railroad came about.

Greg James

We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons, most of today's wars are low-intensity wars fought with light weapons, small arms, often in very poor countries, they are extremely brutal but they don't kill that many people.

Andrew Mack

We are experiencing strong second-quarter sales from the Star Wars merchandise, and anticipate continued sales improvements in categories such as plush, action figures, computer software and video games.

Robert Nakasone

All government wars are unjust.

Murray Rothbard

Wars, conflicts, instability and the poor environmental management of the previous regime have left their scars on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi environment.

Klaus Toepfer

We're here handing out our literature to let these guys know that we're available to them when they come back. We're seeing a lot of guys coming back from the war injured. With the advancement of medicine a lot of them are surviving, more so than they did in some of the previous wars.

Gregory Jones

Perhaps the 2005 filibuster wars depleted interest group war chests in advance of the recent nomination battles. Whatever the reason, the air wars in the federal confirmation process were tame compared with recent advertising in state Supreme Court elections, where interest groups spent more than $7 million in 2004.

Bert Brandenburg

We don't want grown men having sex with young girls. We make a lot of choices for our children: We don't allow them to vote, we don't allow them to drink, we don't allow them to drive cars, we don't allow them to serve in wars at age 13, whether they want to or not, and we don't allow them to have sex with grown men.

Jon Bruning

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Savage

You can trace back almost everything to the war, ... perhaps the most destructive legacy of the war, the ethnic minority wars.

Robert Taylor

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

Lamar Alexander

The accession process is a tool for enhancing security and stability in that region which has suffered so many wars and ethnic conflicts in the last decade.

Olli Rehn

Our view is that if the United States does not recognize that people have a right, under the U.N jurisprudence, to object to certain types of wars, then they can't go to the U.S for protection, they have to come to Canada.

Jeffry House

We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.

Jalal Talabani

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I watched him. He was on the edge of his seat. He was smiling and his eyes were really wide. I just got goose bumps. I kept the tickets because that's one of my favorite 'Star Wars' memories.

Michael Wistock

Denmark and Canada can't promote peaceful resolution of the world's conflicts, only to reveal that we can't do it ourselves. So we agreed to start a dialogue about the Hans Island problem, and say we do not accept flag wars. It won't happen again.

Per Stig Moeller

Many of the wars in recent Burundian history were caused by the growth of unemployment, making unemployed youth vulnerable to calls for armed rebellion. The social and political strife that had engulfed the country for the past four decades entailed consequences.

Nureldin Satti

[Charles Ross does a really good Luke Skywalker. The one man in] The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, ... But I was going into Tar-see station to pick up some power converters!

Charles Ross

Until the 1990s, the international community did little to stop wars. Now it does lots.

Andrew Mack

For many years we had one of the most bitter environmental battles in the country. We still have environmental wars, but they're comparatively small scale. We've transcended partisanship. We work closely with the casinos and ski resorts now.

Rochelle Nason

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

He kept everyone laughing with his stories. Everybody knows his name. Stories about recruiting wars with dad and growing up with his brothers helped to relate to everyone.

Todd Lee

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms. Teachers are going to feel themselves pressured to teach Bible almost like Sunday school and that's where the tightrope walking is going to come into it.

Tim Callahan

[Given the positive performance of its] Star Wars ... be a profitable line for us this year.

David Hargreaves

The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a "good murder"; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.

Pete Hamill

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

John Steinbeck

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Owen Arthur

They spend a lot of time resolving turf wars between interest groups. There's not a lot that affects my life.

Jason Watson

We don't have to fight oil wars.

Paul Richards

Going up to 100 meters will not create more interference for Bluetooth. We knew it was going to be a tricky problem but Bluetooth is going to be the one that wins (in frequency traffic wars) because it changes frequencies so quickly.

Christina Bjorknader

You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Lets talk in the office.

Vitali Klitschko

Among the myths we look at and explode are the idea that international terrorism is the greatest threat to global security. In face, international terrorism kills only a tiny number of people each year compared to the number killed in wars.

Andrew Mack

We'll still see price wars once we move further into the season. The difference is that they may not be across-the-board but only on the highly promoted items.

Reyne Rice

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts, ... Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Daniel Pipes

Studios live and die by tent-pole franchises, ... Other than 'Star Wars' and 'Batman Begins,' what else was a franchise that came out this year? And while those movies were very expensive, they were very successful. But there weren't a lot of those.

Tom Sherak

[He took a puff of his pipe.] Now would be a good time. No wars. Everybody's healthy. ... And before Momma loses her pretty figure.

Dorothy Smith

It absolutely makes tomorrow's (Thursday's) Greenspan announcement as widely anticipated as the new 'Star Wars' movie.

Anthony Chan

Those of us who have covered wars here and there over the past 15, 20, 25 years have to struggle to think of anywhere where we've seen such a relentless brutality.

John Burns

Family benefits are expensive, so it costs the taxpayer. There's also a concern putting the services in this role of trying to take care of families will dilute their effort of fighting wars and keeping the nation safe.

Cindy Williams

I think what really made (the film) happen was that in 1977 George Lucas released 'Star Wars,' .

Leonard Nimoy

We will ensure that there will be no more flag wars.

Per Stig Moeller

His days in power are numbered. I can't think of too many examples in history where someone who has launched four wars in a decade lost all four and long remains in power.

Peter Galbraith

Every day is Veterans Day at the Fort Taber Military Museum. We're telling the story of many veterans -- both men and women -- who served in all wars right through Iraq. We have pictures and artifacts brought in by veterans of many wars.

Donald Moss

George Hill is a great player and a lot of fun to watch and Brandon Cole is a four-year veteran who has been through the wars.

Derek Thomas

In all fairness, when Ms. McFarland said she wrote Star Wars, perhaps she meant the George Lucas film.

Blake Zeff

We have an extra ten years to exploit this property. The Star Wars property is a high gross margin area. It generally requires less advertising because its the movie that drives interest in the merchandise.

David Hargreaves

They fought the wars, they paid the taxes... they have got to have good health care in their later years.

Roger Bedford

This is going to cause more price wars, minute wars, whatever you want to call it. It's great for consumers but terrible for the wireless companies.

Patrick Comack

These issues are still what drive wars today. I wanted to explore the human side of the people of the Holocaust.

James Buckley

We are at war, but we are not. Does it seem like a wartime nation? Bush has not asked for sacrifices, hasn't done the recruiting speech, hasn't asked us to do the recycling or to conserve or a lot of the things you read about in past wars.

Tom Taylor

These wars are not only difficult to report, but increasingly difficult to survive. Those [journalists] who have died in three years in Iraq now outnumber those who died in Vietnam in 12.

Martin Bell

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

Heinz Guderian

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Byron Paulson

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

James Lee Burke

Most of the governments don't want a repeat of the past with the Tampa water wars. However, we do want to receive an equitable allocation.

Jim Freeman

I saw it in August of '77 when I was 11 years old, ... It was the perfect film for a young boy. Up until that point, science fiction/fantasy films were very hit and miss. I remember the buildup for Logan's Run and seeing the movie and being completely disappointed. But Star Wars delivered. I was completely blown away. I've seen every one since.

Roy Mcdonald

I am a woman of peace. When we have wars, it is the women who suffer most, remain as widows and shoulder the burden of bringing up the orphans in a miserable life.

Miria Kalule Obote

She's a competitor - been a basketball player herself. So we don't do anything competitive with cards or monopoly or anything. We just watch movies or watch a ballgame. We keep it like that. We've had our wars before on different things. So we decided it's best we don't do it anymore.

Buzz Peterson

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

Many families and groups are planning to dress up as the entire clan from Star Wars, as parents go trick or treating with their kids for safety reasons.

Shari Maxwell

Wars take many lives away. Humans never forget the grief, but they also never stop the fighting. Streams of blood and tears are only an ornament for their destructive ritual.

Duo Maxwell

I'm sure there are collectors who keep things hidden away and never show it off, ... That's hard for me to understand because part of what has made 'Star Wars' collection so wonderful to me is the chance to share and meet with all kinds of people.

Stephen Sansweet