War proverbs

Page 4

◆ Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

- Malcolm X99

◆ Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower99

◆ War is over ... If you want it.

- John Lennon99

◆ They're in love. Fuck the war.

- Thomas Pynchon99

◆ When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre99

◆ The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ How is it possible to have a civil war?

- George Carlin99

◆ Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

- Emilie Autumn99

◆ I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

- Alexander the Great99

◆ Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy99

◆ Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

- Douglas MacArthur99

◆ No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

- George S. Patton99

◆ The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

- Leo Tolstoy99