One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

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 like a dog for no good reason.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

I supported Donald Trump.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.