Quotes About War

He looked at me with a sly grin and said, "Kugler, Kugler—it's just a war. Throw your shit together in the A.M. We'll go get 'em. It'll be fun. You'll see." I didn't know what to make of him.

I divorced myself from the dead guy. I decided that life in Nam was just that way. Whatever emotions I had, needed a cement vault to hide in. And they would hide, even if I had to push them in and shut the door. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Winners got up in the morning; losers didn't.

A bullet or two thudded into the soaked ground right next to me. My asshole froze, then jumped right up my throat as another round broke a branch by my left foot.

Yossarian knew that you had to be crazy to fly combat. But you couldn't fly combat if you were crazy. If you turned yourself in as crazy so that you couldn't fly combat that would clearly be the act of a sane person, so you couldn't really be crazy and you must fly combat. Yossarian knew all this and he recognized it as the "catch." It was Catch-22.

shipping out of the states—this was January of '43—the goddamned generals

If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace, perceiving that further ostentatious preparations for war were idle.

KNOWLT HOHEIMER I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet water my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of running away and joining the army. Rather a thousand times the country jail That to lie under his marble figure with wings, And this granite pedestal Bearing the words, «Pro Patria». What do they mean, anyway?

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the start of the two world wars—a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.

Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song.

Whenever we engage in a war or move in on some other country, it is always to liberate somebody.

GENNARO …«Chi ha voluto 'a guerra?» «Il popolo» – diceno 'e prufessure. «Ma chi l'ha dichiarata?» «'E prufessure» – dice 'o popolo. Si 'a guerra se perde l'ha perduta 'o popolo; e si se vince, l'hanno vinciuta 'e prufessure.»

GENNARO 'A sta guerra ccà se torna buone… Ca nun se vo' fa' male a nisciuno…»

The tragedy of modern war is not so much that the young men die but that they die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

It seems that the U.S. Government—what country is that?—has got another war going somewhere, I forget exactly where, on another continent as usual, and they want Waterman to go over there and fight for them. For IT, I mean—when did a government ever consist of human beings?

If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself

The art of medicine will then be honoured in the place of war, which is the art of murder: the noblest study of the acutest minds will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of the causes of disease. Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal; but it may be prolonged almost indefinitely. And as the meaner animal bequeaths its vigour to its offspring, so man shall transmit his improved organisation, mental and physical, to his sons.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Remember Pearl Harbor.

I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.

Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.