Judge our adversaries from their standpoint, not from ours.
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Quotes tagged ‘War’
The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come.
In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
When the United Nations refugee agency was created after World War II, it was intended to help people return to their homes after conflict. It wasn’t created to feed, year after year, people who may never go home, whose children will be born stateless, and whose countries may never see peace... And…
Love isn’t a quilt. Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind. Love is a game, a chase, a thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves.
You'll only win the war if you pick the right battles, Agent Mulder. This is a battle you can't win.
To acts of war we shall reply with acts of war.
It’s harder to end a war than begin one.
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict -- its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts.
Watching the news will always make you feel like the world is ending. The world isn’t ending. The world is changing.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
Love is a war that only a woman who isn’t afraid to stand up and do battle with men can win.
The beauty of her face started the greatest war man has ever known.
When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful.
Humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet’s dwindling natural resources.
Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.
They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war.