Famous Quotes About war

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.