War Quotes

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

~ Duane Hewitt

A lot of blood,A lot of dead people,A lot of victims,A lot of useless battles,A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall...

~ Deyth Banger

War is the most profitable business on earth

~ Kenneth Eade

The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077 names, the names of young men who were robbed of life. Note that we often say that they gave their lives, but of course, this is not true; their lives were taken from them. It is not outrageous to consider the carving of their names and the false promise of “evermore” another act of violence.

~ Nel Noddings

Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …

~ Vladislav Tamarov

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

~ Kiersten White

Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?

~ Chris Cleave

For all these stars,nothing is new.They’ve seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too.They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood.They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud.They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed.They’ve seen the treesand the seas emptied.Yet, you won’t hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years,proclaims: 'I have lived!'Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,the families, the friends, none of it is new.All of it—even the me and you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

One didn't understand, until one had seen a great many bodies, the unconscious effort that one must be making every minute simply to keep one's hands and face and clothes clean. The world's surfaces were so filthy that the living touched them only with the tips of their fingers and the soles of their shoes. How grubby it was to die, to give up making that effort.

~ Chris Cleave

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

~ Patrick Ness

The most valuable real estate for a man is the woman's mind.Many bloody battles have been fought for her mind space!

~ Sanjai Velayudhan

Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

~ Salman Rushdie

Man constantly prayed to God for peace, but peace never happened, so he decided that his god must really want war because the other side was sinful. Man invented and extolled virtues which could only be exemplified under conditions of war, like heroism and gallantry and honor, and he gave himself laurel wreaths or booty or medals for such things, thus rewarding himself for behaving well while sinning. He did it when he was a primitive, and he went on with it after he thought he was civilized.

~ Sheri S. Tepper

He is, however,” Amos continued, “keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel’s reactor.”Holden ran his fingers through his hair. “So not too generous, then.”“Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.

~ James S.a. Corey

This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.

~ Chris Cleave

There was less of him now. There was less of them all. Officers and men dragged themselves around in uniforms three sizes too big, new holes punched into every belt, every collar hanging loose. They were a garrison of skinny boys performing a play about soldiers.

~ Chris Cleave

We will never achieve freedom - not until the very end - but the fight can be so beautiful.

~ Kim Fielding

For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.

~ Andrzej Sapkowski

My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.

~ Brandon Sanderson

His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.

~ James S.a. Corey

What do they be teaching the young these days? I declare, they think more on machines and formulas than they do on the true knowledge of the world. They blow things up, and call it progress. They kills one another by the million, and calls it civilization... But you takes a single life, just one, and that is murder most foul, and they will pin you for that, and lay it against you the rest of your life. It hardly seems fair.

~ Paul Kearney

The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under 21 years of age. The population continued to climb—and with it the youth percentage.In the 1980s the figure was 79.7 percent.In the 1990s, 82.4 percent.In the year 2000—critical mass.

~ William F. Nolan

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

~ Jonathan Glover

Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.''I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.''Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?''Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.''Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember.

~ Chris Cleave

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.

~ Sabaa Tahir

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.

~ Anthony Liccione

A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you’ll ever see.

~ Christian Cameron

You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

~ Marya Mannes

to have great pain is to have certainty, to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

~ Elaine Scarry

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

~ Steve Maraboli

What would yield the greater benefit to mankind: if I spent the afternoon taking stock in my dispensary, or if I went to the beach and took off my clothes and lay in my underpants absorbing the benign spring sun, watching the children frolic in the water, later buying an ice-cream from the kiosk on the parking lot, if the kiosk is still there? What did Noël ultimately achieve labouring at his desk to balance the bodies out against the bodies in? Would he not be better off taking a nap? Maybe the universal sum of happiness would be increased if we declared this afternoon a holiday and went down to the beach, commandant, doctor, chaplain, PT instructors, guards, dog-handlers all together with the six hard cases from the detention block, leaving behind the concussion case to look after things. Perhaps we might meet some girls. For what reason were we waging the war, after all, but to augment the sum of happiness in the universe? Or was I misremembering, was that another war I was thinking of?

~ J.m. Coetzee

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.

~ Mark Kurlansky

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

~ Todd Stocker

   Fine! Fine! I'm listening...but it's not very interesting!...   Oh, that's what you think! that's what you think! but nothing is very interesting, dear Professor Y! jot this down! take some notes!   What notes?   Just write!...that if it weren't for wars, alcohol, blood pressure and cancer, the people in our atheistic Europe would soon be bored to death of life!

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.

~ Alephonsion Deng

He was shivering like a Wicklow sheepdog in a snowy yard, though the weather was officially 'clement'.The first layer of clothing was his jacket, the second his shirt, the third his long-johns, the fourth his share of lice, the fifth his share of fear.

~ Sebastian Barry

These men were born to drill and die.            Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,            Make plain to them the excellence of killing            And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

~ Stephen Crane

I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin

~ Vera Brittain

One just voice is greater than an army.

~ Fernando A. Torres