Quotes About War

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it.

War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way of life at once stimulating and completely depressing.

Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without adequate equipment or support, who stood and battled it out with the Germans until overwhelmed.

If the Germans come', Marshal Smigly-Rydz9 had stated only a month before, in August 1939, 'we lose our freedom. If the Russians come, we lose our souls.

Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.

When Khrushchev asked whether his brass hats would guarantee that keeping the missiles in Cuba would not bring about nuclear war, they looked at him, he later told Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review, an informal emissary between Kennedy and Khrushchev, "as though I were out of my mind or, what was worse, a traitor. So I said to myself, 'To hell with these maniacs.'"6

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Mithorden said it well," she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared." She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views.

God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.

Il est faux que, comme on a longtemps osé le prétendre, il ait existé un ordre quelconque de Hitler ou de l'un de ses proches d'exterminer les juifs. Pendant la guerre, des soldats et des officiers allemands ont été condamnés par leurs propres cours martiales, et parfois fusillés, pour avoir tué des juifs.

Y cuando explotó la primera bomba, sonó dentro del primer vehículo de los nuestros como un estallido detrás de nosotros. Los policías con sus pasamontañas sabían lo que era, y la segunda bomba detonó a 100 metros de distancia mientras yo abría la puerta trasera.

8.000 soldados iraquíes habían sido enterrados vivos en sus trincheras por las excavadoras y arados montados sobre los tanques de la división de infantería motorizada estadounidense,6 el breve momento de compasión que esto generó seguramente tuvo más que ver con la conciencia culpable por la pasividad occidental para con los insurgentes iraquíes que con la enorme pérdida de vidas humanas que representaba.

Si uno examina los motivos de su flirteo con Hitler y cuestiona aquello a lo que los palestinos se refieren a veces con cierta incomodidad como el «período alemán» de hach Amin, los palestinos preguntarán por qué apoya uno la campaña de calumnias «sionistas» contra la memoria de aquel anciano. El mero hecho de hablar sobre su vida supone quedar atrapado en una guerra de propaganda árabe-israelí.

Los mismos hombres de los que se sospecha que han cometido crímenes contra la humanidad estaban trabajando con los estadounidenses para dar caza a los culpables de crímenes contra la humanidad. Esta colaboración militar, según declaró el Pentágono, era parte de «la guerra contra el terror».

Lo que Mayreni describió no fue un crimen de guerra aislado. Era una rutina. En el desfiladero de Kemaj, los kurdos y los soldados turcos de la 86.º Brigada de Caballería asesinaron a más de 20.000 mujeres y niños. En Bitlis, los turcos ahogaron a más de 900 mujeres en el Tigris.

Once you start fighting in a war, of course, you are immediately complicit in a form of mass murder.

Qué había ocurrido con nuestra moral desde el 11 de septiembre? Temía saber la respuesta. Tras la primera y la segunda guerra mundial, nosotros —Occidente— plantamos un bosque de legislación para impedir

Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, "them" and "us," victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.