In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.
— Yitzhak Shamir
6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
— Yitzhak Navon
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
— Yasser Arafat
For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
— Yanis Varoufakis
You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.
— Xenophon
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.
— Xavier Becerra
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
— Wyclef Jean
The war against terrorism is terrorism.
— Woody Harrelson
There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.
— Wojciech Jaruzelski
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
— Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
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.
I want to stop war, and I want to stop disease.
— Wim Hof
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
— William Westmoreland
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.
— Yitzhak Rabin
I assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that we shall discover ourselves in peace more than we have with war and confrontation, as I am sure that the Israelis, in turn shall find themselves in peace more than they have found it in war.
Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.
— Yasmine Hamdan
India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.
— Yami Gautam
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
— Woody Allen
After every war someone has to tidy up.
— Wislawa Szymborska
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy.
— Winona LaDuke
The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships with people who might be dead tomorrow were important. It is a sort of wonderful state of mind. It's too bad it takes a war to create such a condition among men.
— William Wyler
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
Terror cannot be finished by one war.
The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today's world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, and prosperity.
I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.
There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.
— Yair Lapid
If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.
— Wole Soyinka
All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new language, a new world for the MCU to play in, and that construction is then rocked to its core when Thanos enters in 'Infinity War' - get ready.
— Winston Duke
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
— Winifred Holtby
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
