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Quotes About War

war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.
~ Alison Weir
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
~ Allen Ginsberg
We the People - shelling the Vietcong
~ Allen Ginsberg
our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry
~ Allen Ginsberg
America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
~ Allen Ginsberg
Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm
~ Allen Ginsberg
And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war
~ Allen Ginsberg
Mothers weep and Sons be dumb your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV
~ Allen Ginsberg
Money has reckoned the soul of America  Congress broken thru to the precipice of Eternity  the president built a War machine which will vomit and rear up Russia out of Kansas  The American Century betrayed by a mad Senate which no longer sleeps with its wife - Death to Van Gogh's Ear!
~ Allen Ginsberg
If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo.
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting
~ Ambrose Bierce
Some deep disappointment in early life had soured its disposition, and it had declared war upon the whole world.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The fever of battle burned hot in its heart; its brain was intoxicated with the wine of strife.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.
~ Ambrose Bierce
En tiempo de paz prepara la guerra" tiene un significado más profundo de lo que parece; quiere decir, no sólo que todas las cosas terrestres tienen un fin, que el cambio es la única ley inmutable y eterna, sino que el terreno de la paz está sembrado con las semillas de la guerra y favorece su germinación y crecimiento.
~ Ambrose Bierce
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The inherent dangers of youth will never change. Volatile hearts and ill-advised flirtations can hardly be compared to the hatred and slaughter of war.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
~ Aminatta Forna
That's what war does. Strips people and places of their identities and turns them into enemies in a line, positions to be taken, resources to be foraged. Anonymous things that can be carelessly crushed, and stolen, and burned without guilt.
~ Joe Abercrombie
War is no place for good men.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Let Father Peace spill tears over the methods. Mother War smiles upon results.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He's really dead?" Benna blew out his cheeks. "Well, his head's off, and spiked above the gates, so unless you know one hell of a physician...
~ Joe Abercrombie