Quotes About War

Werner looks at the blue of the walls and thinks of Birds of America, yellow-crowned heron, Kentucky warbler, scarlet tanager, bird after glorious bird, and Frederick's gaze remains stuck in some terrible middle ground, each eye a stagnant pool into which Werner cannot bear to look. Relapse In late June 1942, for the first time since her fever, Madame Manec is not in the kitchen when Marie-Laure wakes.

War, Etienne thinks distantly, is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

She can hear the bombers when they are three miles away. A mounting static. The hum inside a seashell.

The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever.

Funny how to celebrate peace we seem to want to simulate war.

Che cosa non ha fatto, la guerra, ai sognatori.

The Reich must need socks." "For what?" "For feet, Jutta (73).

Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.

Perusian war proved that Antony and his supporters

his small party arrived to find the war over and Caesar victorious.

Philippic (the seventh) in which he defended his record as a peacemaker but said that any compromise with Antony would be dishonorable. "I do not reject peace," he said, "but I am afraid of war disguised as peace.

37 B.C.; it was in his interest to ensure that the west was quiet before he set off against Parthia

So the final step would be to invade Germany and create a new frontier at the river Elbe.

It is as if nothing had ever happened on that bloodstained shore. Had Helen been worth it?

The only eventuality Octavian wanted to avoid was Antony joining him in the war against Sextus.

The plot was betrayed, but Varus could not bring himself to distrust his friendly Germans

All was lost now. All the dreams of whatever God had created for them, lost. He wondered in that moment why it was that he had been born and survived the war, only to meet this fate, here, in his home country. Maybe he had never had a life, but was only a figurine played out on a master game board.

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.

What makes them dangerous is their belief that they should not be stopped, that they are justified in what they do. I will not speak of my experiences in the war, but I will say this. The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.

No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.

Atticus Pund did not reply but he knew from his experience that murderers could, indeed, smile and make pleasant conversation one minute and strike violently the next. His experiences during the war had also taught him much about what he called the institutionalisation of murder; how, if you surrounded murder with enough forms and procedures, if you could convince yourself that it was an absolute necessity, then ultimately it would not be murder at all.

He had discovered the secret of war, the moment when soldiers cast aside their fear and become part of a machine that is so much bigger than themselves. For only then are they prepared to die.

Atticus Pünd had no time for religion. During the war, he had been persecuted not for what he believed but for what he was, a Greek Jew whose great-grandfather had emigrated to Germany sixty years before he was born, unaware that although he was bettering his own life, his decision would lead to the extinction of almost his entire bloodline.

I sent a car to pick you up at school, Alex. I thought you might like a lift. I didn't expect a declaration of war.