Wars Quotes

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

I was four years old when I saw 'Star Wars,' and it has been significantly important throughout my entire life.

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.

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

'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.

I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.

If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.