War Quotes

Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence.

~ Widad Akreyi

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native Countrey and mournfull state of England.That either part or partie is most right in his owne eye his Cause Right his Cariage Right, his Argumts Right his Answeres Right is as wofully and constantly true as the former. And experience tells us that when the God of peace hath taken peace from the Earth one sparke of Action word or Cariage is too too powrefull to kindle such a fire as burns up Families Townes Cities Armies, Navies Nations and Kingdomes.[Letter of Roger Williams to Town of Providence, August 31, 1648]

~ Roger Williams

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells's indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in his Utopia of all patriotic boundaries. He says in his innocent way that Utopia must be a world-state, or else people might make war on it. It does not seem to occur to him that, for a good many of us, if it were a world-state we should still make war on it to the end of the world. For if we admit that there must be varieties in art or opinion what sense is there in thinking there will not be varieties in government? The fact is very simple. Unless you are going deliberately to prevent a thing being good, you cannot prevent it being worth fighting for. It is impossible to prevent a possible conflict of civilizations, because it is impossible to prevent a possible conflict between ideals. If there were no longer our modern strife between nations, there would only be a strife between Utopias. For the highest thing does not tend to union only; the highest thing, tends also to differentiation. You can often get men to fight for the union; but you can never prevent them from fighting also for the differentiation. This variety in the highest thing is the meaning of the fierce patriotism, the fierce nationalism of the great European civilization. It is also, incidentally, the meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Tomorrow maybe love; but now it is the rainPossesses us entirely, the twilight and the rain.

~ Alun Lewis

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Humans without humanity, war_torn world for eternity

~ Mouloud Benzadi

The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.

~ Andrew Ashling

And nothing's wrong when nothing's trueBut I live in a hologram with you.

~ Lorde

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.

~ Kaoru Kurimoto

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase “with the addition of other means” because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

~ Sun Tzu

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

~ Sun Tzu

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

~ Sun Tzu

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend, march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

~ Sun Tzu

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

~ Sun Tzu

We propose to consider first the single elements of our subject, then each branch of part, and, last of all, the whole in all its relations-therefore to advance from the simple to the complex. But it is necessary for us to commence with a glance at the nature of the whole, because it is particularly necessary that in the consideration of any of the parts their relation to the whole be kept constantly in view.We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of War used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. If we would conceive as a unit the countless number of duels which make up a War, we shall do so best by supposing to ourselves two wrestlers. Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavors to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance.War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

~ Sun Tzu

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

~ Sun Tzu

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

~ Sun Tzu

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

~ Sun Tzu

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

~ Sun Tzu

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.Excerpt From: Sunzi. “The Art of War.” iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

~ Sun Tzu

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

~ Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The doctrine of exit strategy fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

~ Leon Wieseltier

Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.

~ M.l. Stedman

I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda’s these day’s? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?

~ Nynke Visser

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

~ Paulo Coelho

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

~ Paulo Coelho

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

~ George S. Patton

Somebody's got to win this war, right?

~ Greg Rucka

War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.

~ Suzy Kassem

Back on the block they probably call Big Al Fat Albert but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

~ Derrick Wolf

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

~ Derrick Wolf

Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence - no American likes being pushed around - with a complete unwillingness to prepare for combat, the Korean War was difficult, perhaps the most difficult in their history.

~ T.r. Fehrenbach

One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.

~ Kari Martindale

I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully absorb the impact this new title would have on my life.

~ Diana Mankin Phelps