People Quotes

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

~ Plato

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

~ Kim Il-Sung

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

~ Chelsea Clinton

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

~ Thurston Clarke

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

~ Muqtada Al Sadr

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

~ Che Guevara

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

~ Larry Elder

People always make war when they say they love peace.

~ D. H. Lawrence

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

~ Salvador Dalí

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

~ Albert Einstein

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

~ John Lennon

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

~ Rita Moreno

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

~ Craig Venter

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

~ Marjane Satrapi

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

~ John Wooden

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

~ Doc Hastings

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.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

~ Paul Valéry

Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

~ Mikhail Gorbachev

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

~ Mo Rocca

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

~ Edward Snowden

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

~ Ian K. Smith

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

~ Ezra Pound

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

~ Robert Gottlieb

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

~ Chief Joseph

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

~ Paul Robeson

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

~ Barack Obama

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

~ Rand Paul

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

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

~ Cindy Sheehan

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

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

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

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

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

Government is waging war against the people.

~ L. Neil Smith