War Quotes

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge t...

How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skie...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains eleva...

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its...

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s b...

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one ...

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they d...

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me ear...

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; ...

For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War’s money-changer, giving d...

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia,...

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the sc...

Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed...

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, wil...

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I writ...

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead ma...

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can...

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teach...

You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the desp...

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...

And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...

We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, be...

You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was...

I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire hist...

…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our...

This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...

It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring ...

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth ...

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This ...

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a l...

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic...

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the neces...

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of g...

I do not think that in those early days of September, Hitler was fully aware that he had irrevocably...

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or e...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...

The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and lea...

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of...

This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.But unf...

Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit...

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to...

God how the dead men Grin by the wall Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.

Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and ar...

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed ...

If you carry a weapon, war will follow you. If you carry a smile, love will knock at your door.

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denyi...

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw peop...

Christ! What are patterns for?

Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight child...

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chan...

We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the li...

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war...

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what ...

For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company...

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, ...

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was ...

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles w...

It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it....

Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army....

Even if it's very late at night. Someone's always awake in the world. But of all those things you co...

Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those...

Akasha, for two thousand years I have watched,' he said. 'Call me the Roman in the Arena if you will...

Taking into consideration all your lovelinesswhy can't you burn your bootsoles and yourdraft card? H...

... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occup...

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, a...

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to ...

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.