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" The war on drugs is a war against the communities. "
Holly Near
War
War On Drugs
Against
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" My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. "
Holly Near
Movement
City
Involved
" Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction. "
Saul David
War
Force
World War I
" But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. "
Barack Obama
" War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected. "
Salman Rushdie
You
Hill
People
" The first casualty when war comes is truth. "
Hiram Johnson
Truth
Casualty
War
" Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. "
Otto von Bismarck
Eyes
Dying
Hard
" 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. "
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Average
War
Mean
" The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. "
Richard M. Nixon
Communism
Sleeping
Fighting
" Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. "
Salvador Dali
Die
War
Who
" To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain. "
Holly Near
Kind
Blessing
Sometimes
" I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. "
Shel Silverstein
Will
Everyone
War
" Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. "
Howard Dean
Wrong
Day
Every
" You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. "
Will Rogers
Way
War
Say
" To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'. "
Holly Near
Men
Concert
Perspective
" If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. "
Barry McCaffrey
War
Children
Down
" I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. "
Ernest Hemingway
Know
Long
Me
" I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. "
William Tecumseh Sherman
Cry
War
Tired
" A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word. "
Holly Near
Political
Afraid
People
" War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. "
George Orwell
Going
Country
Only
" 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
Young
Feel
Fighting
" There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. "
Stephen Douglas
Sides
Man
War
" Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
America
Man
Problem
" If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. "
Holly Near
You
Intelligence
Mistakes
" We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "
Winston Churchill
Never
Fight
Surrender
" In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. "
Sallust
Run
Cowards
Bravery
" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. "
Ernest Hemingway
Man
Care
Hunting
" When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick. "
Jenna Morasca
You
War
Walk
" One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. "
George H. W. Bush
Good
Good Things
Veterans
" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "
Leo Tolstoy
War
Responsibility
Man
" The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. "
Jeannette Rankin
Voting
War
World