Quotes About War

Zaten her ÅŸey ÅŸu ya da bu biçimde baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyi öldürmekle meÅŸgul.

The only place where you could see life and death, i.e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it.

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms To

Quando começou o Inverno, a chuva tornou-se permanente, e com a chuva veio a cólera. Mas foi dominada, e só matou sete mil homens do exército.

Well, I knew I would not be killed. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me. It seemed no more dangerous to me myself than war in the movies. I wished to God it was over though. Maybe it would finish this summer.

Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.

E' la guerra dissi. In guerra è necessario mantenere la disciplina. E per vivere sotto quella disciplina noi dovremmo morire? Tanto senza disciplina moriremo tutti.

The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college.

Onde iremos viver depois da guerra? - Provavelmente num asilo de velhos - disse ela. - Durante três anos esperei infantilmente que a guerra acabasse no Natal. Mas agora não espero já o fim dela senão para quando o nosso filho for major. ------ Henry e Catherine in O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

En tiempos de paz se observa las barrigas de las mujeres. En tiempos de guerra, los movimientos de los poderosos.

How old are you Johnny she asked. Sixteen. And what's that-a boy or a man? He laughed. A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

THE fourteenth of April, 1775.

The president can say we're a country at war all he wants. We're not. The military is at war. And the military families are at war. Everybody else is shopping….

Az a fura érzésem támadt, hogy a háborúban mindig ugyanazt az embert kell újra meg újra meggyilkolnunk, míg végül rá fogok ébredni, hogy én magam vagyok az az ember!

But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared " the mind of a philosopher could not dwell on blood and carnage with any composure," and judged his talents " not fitted for a stormy sea.

They are weary of war, but war is what we live for. They are afraid of death, but death is what we love.

Mike had seen some pretty awful things in the wars in the Middle East, I guess. He'd learned there was not too much stuff in life that needed to be taken seriously. Just the right stuff. Just enough.

The Chinese death-toll in the chaotic fighting of the Second World War has been estimated at around twenty million, outstripping by far every other nation except the Soviet Union.

Nothing, sad to say, has advanced technical progress faster than war.

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Priests of religion. Large-scale building projects. Writing. Taxes. Soldiers. Kings. The ability to make war. All arrive in human history alongside one another, based on the first cities, which are really the first concentrations of stored wealth, themselves based on riverside farming cultures that needed to work together to tame nature.

I think it is more than chance. It also tells me that if we want to avoid going extinct, we have to realize we're already at war with an enemy that's master genetic engineering and is conducting trillions of experiments every second, figuring out new ways to kill us.

I think it is more than chance. It also tells me that if we want to avoid going extinct, we have to realize we're already at war with an enemy that's master genetic engineering and is conducting trillions of experiments every second, figurig out new ways to kill us.