Quotes About Sacrifice

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Just because war is hell doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

In any war, people will pay the price.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.