War Quotes

We may make contact with ambitious species on other planets or stars; soon thereafter there will be interplanetary war. Then, and only then, will we of this earth be one.

~ Will And Ariel Durant

I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on this earth may have the same opportunity to live beautifully- to live in purity without fear or hunger or hatred- as brothers, not as brutes tearing through these hideous swamps of ignorance and war. Men speak of a belief in God. I am beginning to understand what every Christ- and their skins have been every color- what every Christ has taught: That love of God is love of mankind. That no one can profess to love God while he hates the least of his fellows. Jesus, if He were on earth right now, would fight to free men from oppression and evil and war; and you who have made a pious mockery of his every commandment- you would kill Him.

~ Kenneth Patchen

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

~ Michael Hastings

If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive and flying home. The music plays in my ears and I float further and further away from war. Fucking Baghdad.

~ Michael Hastings

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

~ Marcus Luttrell

Danny Dietz died right there in my arms. I don't know how quickly hearts break, but that nearly broke mine... I had to leave him or else die out here with him. But I knew one thing was certain. I still had my rifle and I was not alone, and neither was Danny, a devout Roman Catholic. I left him with God.

~ Marcus Luttrell

I later became more interested in equal rights for women in the work place because of what was happening at IBM. One of the women at Remington Rand had previously been a system service girl for IBM during the war. After a system was installed, a system service girl would go out and show the users how it worked. She was the liaison between the users and the computer company. She was married and had been fired to make room for a returning veteran. When the war ended, IBM rehired all of its former employees who had left to join the military, then fired all of the married women with jobs that could be filled by men.

~ Jean Jennings Bartik

I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?'...It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery.

~ Chris Cleave

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages, he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems, it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism, it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.

~ Monica Hesse

I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.

~ Monica Hesse

Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue.

~ Monica Hesse

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

~ Clifford Cohen

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

~ George R.r. Martin

What was it like? Hell if I know. But next time someone asks.... I'll answer crooked, and I'll answer long. And when they get confused or angry, I'll smile. Finally, I'll think. Someone who understands.

~ Matt Gallagher

humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity

~ Mouloud Benzadi

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

~ Will Durant

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.

~ Monica Hesse

I want to create, not kill.

~ Susanne Dunlap

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik

~ Chris Hedges

To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost

~ Dario Spini

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.

~ G.r. Gopinath

Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.

~ Dario Spini

Most people spend their whole lives waging war—against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all. from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS

~ Germaine Shames

It is a joyous thing, war.  You love your comrade so much in war.  When you see that your quarrel is just, and your blood is fighting well, tears rise to your eyes. A great sweet feeling of loyalty and of pity fills your heart on seeing your friend so valiantly exposing his body.  And then your are prepared to go and live or die with him, and for love not to abandon him.  And out of that, there arises such a delectation, that he who has not experienced it is not fit to say what delight is.  Do you think that a man who does that fears death?  Not at all, for he feels so strengthened, so elated, that he does not know where he is.  Truly he is afraid of nothing.

~ Jean De Bevil

War is a big word; it’s cruel, it’s hard, nobody wants that. Protecting yourself sounds much better. Putting up walls, shutting everyone out. And forgetting that those who you are so afraid of—they’re not all that different from you.

~ C.m. Rayne

A life was a story, and a story was nothing more than a promise that something bad would happen. It was a promise that people would desire and want and ache and burn, but it was not a promise that they would find what they sought.

~ Matthew J. Hefti

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.

~ Clifford Cohen

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

~ Clifford Cohen

A woman protested saying, Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it..

~ Kahlil Gibran

Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.

~ Anthony Doerr

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.

~ Aleksandra Layland

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.

~ Helen Simonson

More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God - or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?

~ Suzy Kassem

Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.

~ Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

~ Aleksandra Layland

Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.

~ Cecily White

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.

~ Wendell Berry