War Quotes

They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,Like petals from a rose,When suddenly across the l...

Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast—Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the m...

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as th...

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

It is an irony of history that the first and greatest success of scientists in persuading government...

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith ...

We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race...

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The fir...

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, w...

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real...

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superfici...

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of who...

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All ...

Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so al...

I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up on...

Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to...

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous ...

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;-...

We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten ye...

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death ...

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possibl...

The things men did or felt they had to do.

our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes...

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, b...

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight an...

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; ...

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your b...

But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if the Kais...

And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...

To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long ...

Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helme...

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we a...

From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does ...

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popu...

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us brok...

And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die...

We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleei...

The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being s...

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the w...

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that ...

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we shou...

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best ...

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—in ...

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a st...

What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide...

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the...

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war,...

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose ever...

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth...

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will no...

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and th...

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you ...

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were li...

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, o...

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust an...

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that t...

Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the...

I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the ...

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to...

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat h...

Named Harris," Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too.""Fortunate fellow," Mike sai...

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater si...

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years...

Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitab...

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...

But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and ...

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the mu...

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and blo...

Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price o...

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their pass...

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have...

War is young men dying and old men talking

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human r...

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud ...

For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people who...

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Let your peace be a victory!

Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt,...

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic...

[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outwei...

What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thi...

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.