War Quotes

It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in orde...

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a...

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?...

War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...

War is the trade of kings.

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principl...

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women l...

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that ...

Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, lo...

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our rel...

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, mem...

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say th...

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son'...

War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a repu...

War is over ... If you want it.

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine ...

Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch be yours to hold it ...

The brazen throat of war.

th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/...

Technology is a means, not an end, no matter how brilliant it appears. How we use digital technology...

The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sect...

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

People who try to tell you what the blitz was like in London start with fire and explosion and then ...

There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning...

There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of a h...

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutatio...

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t o...

Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew—tha...

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a...

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky wa...

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudice...

A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off somet...

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce...

This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at ...

I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the sam...

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of ...

Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to t...

Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences ...

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't mat...

She died in my arms saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter wha...

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.