Subject: Conflict » War (Page 3)

It's negative to think about blowing each other up.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Claim victory and retreat.

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

(1936 – 1989) American social & political activist

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Diplomats tell lies to journalists, and they believe what they read.

(1874 – 1936) Austrian writer & journalist

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Starting a war in the name of peace is like poking a hole in a balloon to get more air into it.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate; and I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

Madonna said that we should pull all of our troops out of Iraq; Donald Rumsfeld said, "No, I think we'd better wait and hear what Britney Spears has to say about it first.”

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

actor, writer & editor

If we had less statesmanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The Falklands incident was a quarrel between two bald men over a comb.

(1899 – 1986) Argentine writer, essayist, poet & translator

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist

'Bush and Son: Leading America to War Since 1990.'

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter