War Quotes

When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms,...

She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter wh...

He asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I...

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; f...

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumsta...

Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to privat...

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pern...

Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they ...

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress...

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, ...

The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, n...

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the h...

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll mak...

Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences...

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

That's a rather subversive idea, isn't it? "Do you think so? I don't. If it is subversive, then ever...

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live...

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which ...

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to...

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from fai...

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, ...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the g...

Veni vidi vici. (I came I saw I conquered.)

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We...

It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us...

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans pr...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too...

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they...

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults...

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being abl...

Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through ...

He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided...

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the s...

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

Where once we fought for land and God, we now fought to avenge fallen comrades, themselves slaughter...

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampagin...

I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

It's the whistling," Laila said to Tariq, "the damn whistling, I hate more than anything" Tariq nodd...

That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- ...

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, educa...

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in han...

war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars wi...

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by ...

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him ...

A thug. In peacetime Fitch would be hanging around a pool table giving the cops trouble. He was perf...

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in...

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the fun...

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years conde...

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least,...

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some ...

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not...

They meet, as we shall meet tomorrow, to murder one another; they kill and maim tens of thousands, a...

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an i...

To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas v...

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace,...

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, ...

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that lo...

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay the...

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intenti...

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Aust...

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because ...

It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, o...

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not ...

Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and ...

At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: ...

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St...

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian s...

Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the...

But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have kil...

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "g...

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, p...

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual...

War is easier than peace. The government elects to punish an enemy it perceives as weak because it i...