War Quotes

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't...

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military ...

They soon lost interest in Sofya. She was just one more prisoner -with no more idea of her destinati...

To Polyakov it was as though a fierce wind from downstream was sweeping up the Volga. Several times ...

The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spi...

...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction ...

When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and w...

I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict ...

Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue somethi...

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of ...

I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling th...

It is, I think, this glamour, this magic, this incomparable keying up of the spirit in a time of mor...

Perhaps ... To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies ...

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daf...

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—wo...

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that som...

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds openin...

He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe...

Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare...

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

Grant Allen once said that an Englishman's idea of God was another Englishman twelve feet high, and ...

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real ...

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Te...

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though,...

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's ...

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to o...

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are...

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpo...

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly ref...

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever ho...

In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark,And the living nations wait,Each sequestered...

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan...

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...

After the Guam conference ended, it was reported that Pope Gregory ceased to pray for peace in the w...

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorist...

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and pla...

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacri...

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.No soldier's paid...

You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. The...

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge...

The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Un...

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds...

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hidIt...

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stutter...

For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this w...

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you...

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpos...

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the sa...

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applicat...

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent di...

So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function no moral equi...

We could see in our own country as late as the 1960's and 1970's how good Christian and Jewish men, ...

In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first gre...

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, ...

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which,...

think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousan...

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her...

There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares gl...

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

All political movements are basically anti-creative — since a political movement is a form of war. “...

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, b...

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: th...

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire an...

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall...

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disast...

The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of...

Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through t...

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against t...

Otaguro’s bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. “Every man is fighting,” he murmured. “Every ...

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged int...