War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
Aphorisms in This Category
21–40 (74)
tiny.ag/6gqwgydb · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/onprshw2 · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
tiny.ag/konajjqe · submitted (updated 11:20)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/7alftveq · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/xrdfngoo · submitted 1997
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/hfj4loeb · submitted 1998
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
tiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · submitted 1997
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/aij5p9qp · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · submitted 1997
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
tiny.ag/mkv04ioy · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · submitted 1997
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/v6pxskz7 · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/snhswbdj · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
21–40 (74)