War Quotes

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This...

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as ...

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, t...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if yo...

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed,...

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as...

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerou...

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar w...

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b...

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and ir...

the main thing is to make history not to write it

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

Mahlia… understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn’t trying to change th...

Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen,...

Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some les...

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind ...

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that ...

Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War,...

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep comi...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I h...

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they ...

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the ...

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventual...

It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it...

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for think...

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronge...

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is strong...

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who be...

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it ...

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends ...

The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into obl...

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i...

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

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War ...

We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out...

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the...

Once and for allthe idea of glorious victorieswon by the glorious armymust be wiped outNeither side ...

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality wo...

There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and ...

The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathe...

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving t...

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not...

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of i...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. Al...

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for ...

Ultimately, the claim goes to the strongest, does it not? In the final sort of things, I mean. He wh...

The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They ...

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, ...

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I a...

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war ...

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a f...

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for ...

By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embat...

If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the he...

I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth...

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six mi...

War is the health of the state.

The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the rea...

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. An...

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone wan...

War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more li...

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No...

It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bomb...

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war alli...

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and mi...

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We wer...

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is foo...

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to vic...

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Part of waging war is knowing when you’re outgunned.