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Quotes About Survival

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
~ Ayn Rand
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
~ Robert Anderson
A starving army is actually worse than none.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.
~ Winston Churchill
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
~ Harold Pinter
Just because war is hell doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.
~ Chris Kyle
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
~ Percival Lowell
We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.
~ Janice Mirikitani
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
~ Otto von Bismarck
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
~ Dorothy Thompson
The next World War will be over water
~ Ismail Serageldin
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
~ Stuart Chase
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
~ Andrew Taylor Still
War is life war is the origin of all things.
~ Adolf Hitler
The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
~ U Thant
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?
~ Laini Taylor
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
~ Art Buchwald
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
~ Mort Walker
War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.
~ David Hackworth