c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
— Paul Robeson
I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
— Juan Cole
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
— Douglass North
It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
— Philip Gibbs
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
— Xavier Becerra
It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.
— Robert Walpole
You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.
— Isaiah Thomas
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
— Fredric Jameson
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
— Clare Short
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
— Peter Shaffer
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
— Ringo Starr
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
— Peter Jennings
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
— Herman Wouk
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
— Gijs de Vries
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
— Lajos Kossuth
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
— Barack Obama
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
— Edward Everett Hale
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
— Edmund Spenser
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
— Van Wyck Brooks
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
— Baruch Spinoza
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
— Andre Malraux
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
— Paddy Chayefsky
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
— William S. Burroughs
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
— George Grosz
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
— Theodore Roosevelt
War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
— Philip Caputo
If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
— Cindy Sheehan
As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
— Barack Obama
If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.
— Robert Pattinson
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
— Barack Obama
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
— Barbara Corcoran
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'
— Tom Hiddleston
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
— Abdullah II of Jordan
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
— Nelson Mandela
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
— Jimmy Carter
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
— Cory Booker
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
— Haruki Murakami
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
— Henry Louis Gates
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
— James Buchan
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
— Dennis Kucinich
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
— John Green
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
— Josh Gad
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
— Ben Carson
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
— Werner Herzog
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
— Bernie Sanders
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
— Kevin Powers
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
— Lynne Reid Banks
Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
— Sam Harris
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
— Richard Louv
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
— Norman Finkelstein
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
— Smedley Butler
One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.
— Suzanne Collins
War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.
— Emmanuel Jal
I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.
— Howard Rheingold
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
— Chief Seattle
I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.
— Dick Cheney
I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever.
— Art Donovan
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
— Winston Churchill
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. 
— Henry David Thoreau
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
— Marco Rubio
Laws are silent in time of war.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
— Alice Walker
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
— Bernie Sanders
I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
— Richard Branson
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
— Will Rogers
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.
— John Lydon
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
— Jerry Saltz
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
— Sylvester Stallone
The real war will never get in the books.
— Walt Whitman
I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
— Ryan Gosling
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
— Ann Coulter
When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
— Ann Coulter
War is a contagion.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
— Aldous Huxley
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
— Larry David
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
— Stephen King
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
— Bono
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
— Napoleon Hill
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.
— Michio Kaku
As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.
— Megyn Kelly
The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
— George Packer
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
— Harry S Truman
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
— Thomas Paine
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
— Madeleine Albright
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
— Jason Mraz
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
— Murray Rothbard
I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.
— Roseanne Barr
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
— David Cameron
Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'
— Will Ferrell
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
— Henry Miller
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
— John le Carre
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
— Calvin Coolidge
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
— Phyllis Schlafly
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
— Andrew Young
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
— George McGovern
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
— Kevin Costner
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
— Chief Joseph
There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.
— Nikki Haley
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
— Helen Thomas
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
— Sarah Palin
Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'
— Michael Morpurgo
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
— Charles Krauthammer
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
— Ron Paul
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
— Robert Anton Wilson
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
— Tony Judt
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
— Germaine Greer
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
— Germaine Greer
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
— John Major
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
— Bernard Baruch
Conquered, we conquer.
— Plautus
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. 
— Washington Irving
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
— Cyril Connolly
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
— Sheryl Crow
See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
— Garrett Hedlund
Europe cannot survive another world war.
— Christian Lous Lange
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense. 
— Sallust
I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
— Hussein of Jordan
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
— Sebastian Junger
I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
— Kary Mullis
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
— J. B. Priestley
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
— Edward Abbey
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
— Henry A. Wallace
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
— Jean Giraudoux
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
— Mark Burnett
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
— J. William Fulbright
The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.
— Dick Morris
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
— David McCullough
Government is waging war against the people.
— L. Neil Smith
I like war.
— Chris Kyle
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
— Jurgen Habermas
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
— Carl von Clausewitz
War is the province of danger.
— Carl von Clausewitz
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
— Carl von Clausewitz
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
— Wendell Willkie
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
— Larry Niven
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
— Bob Feller
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
— Ludwig von Mises
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
— John Boyd Orr
If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
— Alexandra Paul
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
— Pope Paul VI
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
— Benjamin Spock
The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
— John Yoo
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
— Jose Padilha
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
— Wilfred Owen
Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.
— Martha Gellhorn
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
— Ian Hart
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
— Lytton Strachey
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
— John T. Flynn
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
— John T. Flynn
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
— Eamon de Valera
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
— Ernst Zundel
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
— Ernst Zundel
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
— Bayard Rustin
So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.
— Gerald Scarfe
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
— Kevin Powers
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
— Manfred von Richthofen
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
— Albert Pike
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
— Arthur Wellesley
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
— Charles Evans Hughes
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
— Daniel Ellsberg
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
— Anatole Broyard
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
— William Kunstler
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
— Paul Berg
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
— William Petty
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
— Margaret Sanger
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
— Ramsey Clark
The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.
— Tim Hetherington
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
— Cordell Hull
I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
— Nadine Labaki
Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
— Nadine Labaki
I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.
— Peter Scott
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
— Edward Said
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
— Noah Webster
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
— Charles Mackay
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
— Stephen Cohen
The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
— Don Rose
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
— Tom Harkin
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
— Robert M. La Follette
Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.
— Stand Watie
War is the science of destruction.
— John Abbott
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
— John Randolph
We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
— David Bromstad
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.
— Rouben Mamoulian
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. 
— Pierre Curie
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.
— William J. Perry
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
— Alexander Berkman
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
— Anacreon
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
— Chris Hedges
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
— Og Mandino
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
— Oprah Winfrey
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
— Henry Ford
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. 
— Calvin Coolidge
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
— Michael Jordan
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
— Johnny Cash
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
— Bill Gates
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
— Steve Jobs
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
— Shah Rukh Khan
'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
— Fabrizio Moreira
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
— Brene Brown
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
— Colin Powell
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
— C. S. Lewis
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
— James Altucher
Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something. 
— Morihei Ueshiba
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
— Wilma Rudolph
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
— Benjamin Franklin
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
— LeBron James
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
— J. K. Rowling
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
— John Burroughs
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
— Buddha
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
— Cory Booker
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
— Swami Sivananda
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
— Brennan Manning
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
— Zig Ziglar
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
— John Wooden
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
— Ernest Hemingway
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
— Amelia Earhart
True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.
— Myles Munroe
Success is not the absence of failure it's the persistence through failure. 
— Aisha Tyler
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
— Abraham Lincoln
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
— B. F. Skinner
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
— Natalie Massenet
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Without failure there is no achievement.
— John C. Maxwell
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
— Elon Musk
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
— Oprah Winfrey
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
— Benjamin E. Mays
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
— Andy Grove
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
— Henry Rollins
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
— Theresa May
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
— Douglas MacArthur
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
— Rosalynn Carter
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
— Thomas J. Watson
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
— Sumner Redstone
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
— Zig Ziglar
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
— Tony Robbins
I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.
— Conor McGregor
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
— Fidel Castro
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
— Christopher Morley
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
— Confucius
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
— John C. Maxwell
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
— Dolly Parton
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
— Bill Cosby
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
— Dale Carnegie
Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.
— Goldie Hawn
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
— Tony Jaa
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
— Kevin Bacon
Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. 
— Henry Spencer
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
— Lee H. Hamilton
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
— Steve Harvey
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
— Michael J. Fox
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
— John Wooden
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
— J. K. Rowling
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
— John C. Maxwell
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
— Elon Musk
Failure is a word unknown to me.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah