War Quotes

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the...

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Up...

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and re...

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decl...

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. Fo...

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peac...

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people kill...

I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong ...

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an...

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war...

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-o...

About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letter...

Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in s...

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American e...

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed,...

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that,...

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that ...

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of lif...

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Thro...

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This...

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as ...

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, t...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if yo...

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed,...

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as...

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerou...

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar w...

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b...

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and ir...

the main thing is to make history not to write it

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

Mahlia… understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn’t trying to change th...

Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen,...

Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some les...

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind ...

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that ...

Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War,...

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep comi...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I h...

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they ...

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the ...

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventual...

It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it...

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for think...

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronge...

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is strong...

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who be...

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it ...

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends ...

The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into obl...

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i...

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War ...

We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out...

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the...

Once and for allthe idea of glorious victorieswon by the glorious armymust be wiped outNeither side ...

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality wo...

There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and ...

The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathe...

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving t...

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not...

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of i...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. Al...

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for ...

Ultimately, the claim goes to the strongest, does it not? In the final sort of things, I mean. He wh...

The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They ...

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, ...

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I a...

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war ...

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a f...

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for ...