War Quotes (page 1 of 2)

  • Ceca
  • Ceca
    Ceca has said in public that she loves all of her fans, but that she will never perform in either Zagreb or Sarajevo. (Because of attacks towards her husband)
  • Neil Young
  • Neil Young
    To be rid of Saddam was good for the Iraqi people. But the manner in which it took place,maybe there was a better way to do it. Our leaders lost patience.
  • Vanna Bonta
  • Vanna Bonta
    Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.
  • Mick Jagger
  • Mick Jagger
    Vietnam has changed America. It has divided and made people think. There`s a lot of opposition - much more than you think, because all the opposition is laughed at in American magazines. It`s made to look ridiculous. But there is real opposition. Before, Americans used to accept everything, my country right or wrong. But now a lot of people are saying my country should be right, not wrong. [1966]
  • Mick Jagger
  • Mick Jagger
    A lot of children, like in the United States, don`t remember the real horror of (World War II), because they never had to, as they do in Europe and Russia and so on. I`m not saying America didn`t have a terrible experience, but it never came home to them that way. You had rationing and shortages, and people got killed and coffins came home. But you didn`t have the experience of the block opposite being destroyed when you got up in the morning.
  • Anna Held
  • Anna Held
    There is no glory in war. You should be so prepared that war will never be necessary; that it will never be necessary to send your young men forth to pour out their life`s blood in a useless conflict
  • George Shaw
  • George Shaw
    "A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner."
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Ernest Hemingway
    "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one`s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die for no good reason."
  • Shakira
  • Shakira
    "I just feel that there are always pacifist solutions, and I think that the leaders know the exit to the conflict, it`s just that sometimes they don`t want to use them. They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace."
  • Shakira
  • Shakira
    "I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don`t. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people."