"War" Sayings and Quotes

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.
Geraldine Brooks
Myself People Past
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
Camille Paglia
History Legacy Over
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
Harriet Tubman
Heart Peace Know
When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself.
Svetlana Alexievich
Life Memories Me
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
Drew Gilpin Faust
History Effort Small
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
Michael Specter
Life Vintage New
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
Me Man River
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
Stephen Hadley
Pakistan Some Sense
In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.
Deborah Ellis
Mother Father Home
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
Kerry Greenwood
World Anything World War I
A critical part of our relationship with Laos involves addressing the legacy of war.
Ben Rhodes
Relationship Legacy Our
War tore my family apart.
Alek Wek
Family Apart
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti
Life My Life World
The works I made at the start of my career rely on the themes of war, atomic power, and outer space.
Takashi Murakami
Power Space Start
One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Think Accept Be Prepared
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.
Tina Brown
Women Men World
We are muddled into war.
David Lloyd George
Muddled
Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.
Mark Shields
Road Country Safe
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Good Art Blessed
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