Quotes About War

They did not understand that war, which trained courage and founded the cities of barbarous and ignorant men, brings to victor himself but ruin and misery, and is nothing but a horrible and stupid crime when nations are united together by common bonds of art, science, and trade.

He left Penguinia impoverished and depopulated. The flower of the insula perished in his wars. At the time of his fall there were left in our country none but the hunchbacks and cripples from whom we are descended. But he gave us glory." "He made you pay dearly for it!" "Glory never costs too much," replied my guide.

Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.

Is there a more odious crime, is there a graver offence against thy justice, O Lord, than this murder and this robbery?" "Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.

Mas se tocarem nos conselhos de guerra – exclamou o senhor de Terremondre –, será o fim do Exército, será o fim do país! Monsieur Bergeret formulou esta resposta: — Quando os padres e os grão-senhores foram privados do direito de enforcar os vilões, acreditou-se que era o fim de tudo. Mas, depressa, viu-se nascer uma nova ordem, superior à antiga. Falo em submeter o soldado, no tempo de paz, ao direito comum.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

moartea a milioane de solda?i f?cea din fiecare b?rbat o marf? rar? pentru femeile singure.

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Tea. Why are the Brits so obsessed with tea? Anything happens... "Put the kettle on." A death in the family. "Put the kettle on." Tornado. "Put the kettle on." Nuclear war. "Put the kettle on.

Hij zei alleen: 'De moffen kunnen het niet winnen. Ze zijn zo stom. Even hebben stomme mensen altijd een voordeel, omdat intelligente mensen niet kunnen voorspellen wat ze gaan doen, juist omdat het zo stom is. Met schaken wint een beginner het soms ook ineens van iemand die het al goed kan. Maar dat is maar één keer. En op den duur zullen de geallieerden het zeker winnen van die hysterische varkens.' Ik hoopte dat hij gelijk had.

It should now be abundantly clear that the comparison between the climate crisis and Covid-19 rests on a category mistake. It's a bit like comparing a war with a bullet. Covid-19 is one manifestation of a secular trend running parallel to the climate crises, a global sickening to match the global heating.

I am Goyaof the bare field, by the enemy's beak gougedtill the craters of my eyes gapeI am griefI am the tongueof war, the embers of citieson the snows of the year 1941I am hunger

Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.

World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building.

Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage beyond the bounds of human Imagination. Over the course of ten days, about 130,000 women were raped---

Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.

A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means. It would be a means to universal suicide.

a sense, the history of anti-Americanism in France is perhaps the most interesting in Europe. In contrast to all the other major European countries—Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, even the Austro-Hungarian monarchy75 —France and the United States have never fought a war against each other.

a sense, the history of anti-Americanism in France is perhaps the most interesting in Europe. In contrast to all the other major European countries—Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, even the Austro-Hungarian monarchy75 —France and the United States have never fought a war against each other.76 What is more, the United States was allied with France, officially or otherwise, more often than with any other European country.

gray pennies that had been made out of steel instead of copper during the Second World War.

After the war, and after he had been thanked by Congress and President George Washington himself, Captain Oakes got the idea of turning his huge warehouse into a school, a permanent contribution to the life of the town and the nation.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Before dismissing such men as 'mediocre, timid, and weak,' one might ask oneself how many of us would welcome such a war, especially without the knowledge of hindsight?

Yet to imagine this outcome [slavery being impermissible everywhere] as somehow preordained is to be misguided by hindsight...Lincoln got it right when, shortly before his death, he called the result of the war 'astounding.