Quotes About Conflict

Para mí el frente es un siniestro remolino.

A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.

Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri - strivire, devorare, moarte.

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Tjaden comes back. He is still worked up and joins in the debate again straight away by asking how a war starts in the first place. 'Usually when one country insults another one badly,' answers Kropp, a little patronizingly. But Tjaden isn't going to be put off. 'A country? I don't get it. A German mountain can't insult a French mountain, or a river, or a forest, or a cornfield.

I think it's more a kind of fever,' says Albert. 'Nobody really wants it, but all of a sudden, there it is. We didn't want the war, they say the same thing on the other side – and in spite of that, half the world is at it hammer and tongs.

Ravic straightened up. "Faith can easily make one fanatical. That's why all religions have cost so much blood." He grinned. "Tolerance is the daughter of doubt, Eugénie. That explains why you, with all your faith, are so much more aggressive toward me than I, lost infidel, am toward you." Veber

Kättemaksuga üksi saab vähe korda saata. Kättemaks kuulub teise, süngema osa juurde, mis korda tuleb saata, kuid mis tuleb pärast seda?

No one would believe that in this howling waste there could still be men; but steel helmets now appear on all sides out of the trench, and fifty yards from us a machine-gun is already in position and barking. The wire entanglements are torn to pieces. Yet they offer some obstacle. We see the storm-troops coming. Our artillery opens fire. Machine-guns rattle, rifles crack.

Mes gavome dovan? ugn?, nes mumyse buvo kažkas dieviško. O dabar mes slepiame j?, nes žudome savyje t? dievišk? dalelyt?.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.

It's funny how much of the miseries of this world are caused by short people –they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on than the tall ones.

While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.

It brings a lump into the throat to see how they go over, and run and fall. A man would like to spank them, they are so stupid, and to take them by the arm and lead them away from here where they have no business to be. They wear grey coats and trousers and boots, but for most of them the uniform is far too big, it hangs on their limbs, their shoulders are too narrow, their bodies too slight; no uniform was ever made to these childish measurements.

Das sage ich euch, es ist die allergrößte Gemeinheit, daß Tiere im Krieg sind.

Granaten, Gasschwaden und Tankflottillen - Zerstampfen, Zerfressen, Tod. Ruhr, Grippe, Typhus - Würgen, Verbrennen, Tod. Graben, Lazarett, Massengrab - mehr Möglichkeiten gibt es nicht.

Ja pils?tu bombard?jam m?s, tad t? ir strat??iska nepieciešam?ba; ja to dara citi, tad ne??l?ga noziedz?ba.

Naids ir k? sk?be, kas saÄ"d dvÄ"­seli, vienalga, vai ienÄ«sti pats, vai arÄ« tevi ienÄ«st.

It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war." - Paul Baumer

That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. The subject

Frontul e o colivie în care, plin de nervozitate, trebuie s? aÈ™tepÈ›i ce va urma.

Vai katr? zi?? kaut kam arvien j?b?t paties?bai? - Laikam ne. K?p?c? - Es nezinu. Bet iesp?jams, ka b?tu maz?k karu, ja cilv?ki tik ?oti negrib?tu p?rliecin?t cits citu par savas personisk?s paties?bas pareiz?bu.

So seltsam es scheinen mag, aber alle möglichen Probleme und Unglücke in dieser Welt kommen sehr oft von Menschen mit kleiner Statur; Sie haben einen viel streitsüchtigeren und energischeren Charakter als große Menschen.

Der Stolz mancher französischer Hoteliers besteht darin, daß sie die Fremden hassen, von denen sie leben.