Quotes About War

Pero los jóvenes descubren demasiado tarde que las guerras las planean los viejos mientras son ellos, al fin, quienes mueren en los campos de batalla.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse issues, we witness a casualty of war.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

Although more Palestinian civilians died than Israeli civilians, Israel was acting within the law of war while Hamas was not. War crimes are not proved merely by citing casualty statistics but by evaluating and understanding the reasons for casualties.

Hamas repeatedly and continually used protected civilian sites for military attacks, rendering them legitimate military targets. An IDF study shows that Hamas fired rockets from amusement parks, first aid stations, U.N. facilities, playgrounds, hospitals, medical clinics, and schools.28 Consequently, Hamas, not Israel, is the party committing war crimes. Incidental or collateral damage on both sides

A terrible and hidden reality of both America's and Israel's wars is that hundreds of soldiers have fallen, killed by terrorists, because they were being cautious with civilian lives

ISIS violates every single principle of the law of war.

Now is not the time to grow weary in the face of evil. Now is not the time to allow our hunger for peace to obscure our enemy's desire for war. Innocent lives are at stake, and immense evil is on the march. Let's call our nation to action again.

Freeing negroes seems to be the latest Confederate government craze … [but] if we are to lose our negroes we would as soon see Sherman free them as the Confederate government," insisted one Southern woman. "Victory itself would be robbed of its glory if shared with slaves

In a thousand little ways, it seemed as though Grant was fated to fight this civil war. In battle, what galled Grant most was indecision. Once, an aide asked if he thought he was always right. "No!" Grant ripped back. "I am not, but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out and can do the other thing. But not to decide… may rum everything.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

In a time of dislocation, the Manichean view- we, the "good versus them, the "bad" -is, though comfortable, also false and dangerous. False, as I myself know remembering a little girl who wanted a gun and a brother who did not[...]. Dangerous because this simplistic view depends on rigid notions of what men and women are in relation to war and of war itself as an absolute contrast to peace.

Haz la guerra! Haz la guerra a tu cobardía, a tu pereza, a tu ignorancia, a tu presunción, a tu dolor. Haz la guerra primero, y el amor os será dado

Todo esto se ha descrito mil veces, quizá no merece la pena detenerse de nuevo en esta sórdida y apestosa ópera. Además, quizá tampoco sea útil ni pertinente comparar la guerra con una ópera, y menos cuando no se es muy aficionado a la ópera, aunque la guerra, como ella, sea grandiosa, enfática, excesiva, llena de ingratas morosidades, como ella arme mucho ruido y con frecuencia, a la larga, resulte bastante fastidiosa.

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

Eisenhower and Patton, old friends and figures crucial to the Allies' upcoming success, conferred over yet another gaffe on Patton's part that could have cost him his command. Patton's head is on Ike's shoulder in gratitude, but the scene is rescued from being completely maudlin by Eisenhower's internal question as to whether Patton wears his ever-present helmet to bed.

Bush saw issues in terms of black and white. There were no subtleties and no shades of gray. The war in Iraq was a biblical struggle of good versus evil—something from the pages of the Book of Revelation. His decision to bring democracy to Iraq was equally arbitrary and unilateral. Bush's religious fundamentalism often obscured reality. And he expected his cabinet to fall into line, not debate possible alternatives.

Iraq, and suggested the soldiers

The Archangel took his role of fucker seriously. It made him sing the Marseillaise , for now he was proud of being a Frenchman and a Gallic cock, of which only males are proud. Then he died in the war.

Je me disais : "Tu barreras dans l'Histoire de France de ta fille tout ce qui est exaltation à la guerre." Mais il aurait fallu tout barrer et comme j'avais malgré tout essayé, l'institutrice vint chez moi et me dit : "Que voulez-vous, monsieur Giono, comment pouvons-nous faire ?

Celui qui est contre la guerre est par ce seul fait dans l'illégalité. L'état capitaliste considère la vie humaine comme la matière véritablement première de la production du capital. Il conserve cette matière tant qu'il est utile pour lui de la conserver. Il l'entretient car elle est une matière et elle a besoin d'entretien, et aussi pour la rendre plus malléable il accepte qu'elle vive.