Wars Quotes

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

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.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.