Nadine Labaki Quotes

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

If there was no war, the young men felt that they were denied manhood.

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the ass.

... deployed on the sands of Saudi Arabia and facing possible extinction, are young men and women drawn, in the main, from the poorer families of our republic.

That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace.

We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.