War Quotes

Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.

~ Shaun Hick

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman]

~ Emmanuel Aghado

When we stand up for what we believe in—for what’s right—there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.

~ Harvey Pekar

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. Give him one more chance.

~ Ian Fleming

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.

~ Suzy Kassem

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

~ Suzy Kassem

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn’t go much beyond that. We had been fighting for over two years, and killing had become a daily activity. I felt no pity for anyone.

~ Ishmael Beah

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

~ Moshe Dayan

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

~ Anthony Liccione

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

~ Stephen E. Ambrose

I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

~ Paul Monette

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

~ Peter V. Brett

Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight

~ Renee Ahdieh

What was it with women and pushing men’s buttons?I get that a woman wants to look attractive. News flash: you already do. We see it. But apparently to women, owning their own beauty isn’t enough. They arm all the weapons in their arsenal to gain the attention of every Y chromosome within a ten-mile radius. Why do they go to all the trouble? Validation.Meanwhile, biology dictates survival of the fittest; battles ensue, wars are fought, and somewhere amid all the carnage, a victor emerges to claim his female. All because said female just wanted to go out and feel pretty that night.

~ Kat Bastion

...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.

~ Andrea Cremer

Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.

~ Katlyn Charlesworth

For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.

~ Debasish Mridha

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

~ Iris Johansen

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

~ Wouter Van Gastel

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good. Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve Me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.

~ John Bunyan

Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military intervention depends upon a belief in the legitimacy of armed violence in resolving political problems, which in turn depends upon our adherence to particular ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman.

~ Nadje Al-Ali

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

~ Morgan Llywelyn

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships.

~ John Fowles

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, surprise is the optimistic solution.

~ Amit Kalantri

Move not unless you see an advantage,  use not your troops unless there is something to be gained, fight not unless the position is critical.

~ Sun Tzu

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

~ Sun Tzu

If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

~ Sun Tzu

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

~ Sun Tzu

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear, then he will be amenable to your will.

~ Sun Tzu

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

~ Sun Tzu

Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers, then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

~ Sun Tzu

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

~ Sun Tzu

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. 

~ Sun Tzu

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

~ Sun Tzu

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

~ Sun Tzu

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

~ Sun Tzu

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

~ Sun Tzu