#wars

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. ↗

— James Monroe

#defence #does #european #european powers #injuries

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. ↗

— Alan Moore

#better world #blowing #die #energy #get

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#art #bourgeois #came #civil #civil wars

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. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#big #big thing #biggest #breakthrough #coming

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. ↗

— Yoweri Museveni

#geneva #geneva convention #i #never #read

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

#dumb #i #i am #oppose #opposed

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. ↗

— George Orwell

#battles #been #lost #opening #probably

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#any #bloody #i #intelligence #intelligent

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#army #because #believe #family #guard

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents? ↗

— Carl Paladino

#bit #died #entitled #families #ground