#war

War is the business of barbarians. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#business #war

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. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#complained #deserve #entertaining #heroism #i

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#brings #defeat #ever #happen #must

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#doing #get #i #off #rewarded

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face. ↗

— John Bolton

#around #aware #economy #face #focused

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. ↗

— John Bolton

#except #favor #horrific #larger #larger scale

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. ↗

— John Bolton

#generals #last #like #politicians #tendency

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cult #exclusive #major #rewards #sources

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. ↗

— Julian Bond

#compassion #iraq #much #terrorism #war

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain. ↗

— Kit Bond

#cold #cold war #day #end #fear