Wars Quotes

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

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

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

No two wars are identical.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.