Quotes About War

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

What had he been fighting when he fought the Nazis but a resurgence of archaic horrors that civilized men had once believed were safely dead? In

Hard to imagine, but . . . well, we have so many bureaucrats, so many people in high places like Lord Hauksberg who insists the enemy doesn't really mean harm

Survivor—under what conditions?" "Any conditions. Adaptability, toughness, quickness—those are the things that count most." "I think kindness means a lot," said Sheila timidly. "It's a luxury, I'm afraid, though of course it's such luxuries that make us human," said Mandelbaum. "Kindness to whom? Sometimes you just have to cut loose and get violent. Some wars are necessary.

The same fight was being waged, here the Nazis and there the Middle World; but in both places, Chaos against Law, something old and wild and blind at war with man and the works of man.

That was the trouble with war. Leave out the toil, discipline, discomfort, scant sleep, lousy food, monotony, and combat, and war would be a fine institution.

Ibu bapak tani—ibu bapak tanah air—akan meratapi putera-puterinya yang terkubur dalam udara terbuka di atas rumput hijau, di bawah naungan langit biru di mana awan putih berarak dan angin bersuling di rumpun bambu. Kemudian tinggallah tulang belulang putih yang bercerita pada musafir lalu, " Di sini pernah terjadi pertempuran. Dan aku mati di sini.

Perang, kekuasaan, kekayaan, seperti unggun api dalam kegelapan dan orang berterbangan untuk mati tumpas di dalamnya.

Kalau kita menang perang, semua kita dapat rumah baik. Tapi sekarang negara lebih butuh uang dari pada kita semua.

Alam dan manusia telah membikinnya tidak brdaya dalam umur yang baru setengah abad. Sejak meninggalkan kampung halaman dan keluarga ia hanya mengenal penderitaan, tindasan, dan aniaya. Kami hanya dapat menangis dalam hati. Dan itupun tidak berguna. Orang-orang Jepang yang telah menindasnya sampai ia jadi begitu sekarang mungkin hidup senang di tengah keluargaya. Ya, sejak 1950, mungkin sudah sejak 1945.

Ah, itu serdadu manja kalau menang perang sekali saja! Kemenanganku lebih dari padanya. Aku pernah menguasai dia hanya karena aku tidak seperti perempuan-perempuan lain.

Tiap mata murah, saudara, dan jiwa tiga kali lebih murah. Dan bertambah banyak Amerika mendatangkan peluru, bertambah turun jiwa manusia.

Tak pernah ada perang untuk perang. Ada banyak bangsa yang berperang bukan hendak keluar sebagai pemenang. Mereka turun ke medan perang dan berguguran berkeping-keping seperti bangsa Aceh sekarang ini...ada sesuatu yang dibela, sesuatu yang lebih berharga daripada hanya mati, hidup atau kalah-menang.

retelling of India's political history as I have experienced it. The Dramatic Decade is the first of a trilogy; this book covers the period between 1969 and 1980. It begins with my entry into public life as a member of the Rajya Sabha and covers three epochal events—the war that led to the liberation

Equality in all things, the synonym of equity, this is anarchism in very deed. It is not only against the abstract trinity of law, religion, and authority that we declare war. By becoming anarchists we declare war against all this wave of deceit, cunning, exploitation, depravity, vice—in a word, inequality—which they have poured into all our hearts. We declare war against their way of acting, against their way of thinking.

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

From the Latin for "terrible," "cruel." Atrox, atrocis. When did the word come to take on such scale? Endless pits gouged in the earth. The Americans in the hamlet of My Lai, some of them shooting themselves in the feet to get out of it. The South Vietnamese with their tiger cages, their filing a man's teeth down to the gums.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

All right. When I was hiding in a small town in Poland with my mother, of course I didn't have many toys. In fact, I had only two—a doll and a little bear I later named Refugee. He was one of those Steiff bears, but he stayed with me after the war and into adulthood and now he's in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The copy they made of him to sell in the gift shop is one of their most popular items.

One of the most important truths about the war, as indeed about all human affairs, is that people can interpret what happens to them only in the context of their own experiences. . . . The fact that the plight of other people was worse than one's own did little to promote personal stoicism.