Quotes About War

The social and political climate came from discussions about how we could find conflict in the wake of a 100-year-long war ending. But as we know in the real world, just because a war ends it doesn't mean that everything turns happy and peaceful. That provided us with some new kinds of conflict for us to explore in 'Korra.'

I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

When the Nazis invaded Poland, they knew they could subdue the country by superior force of arms. But Hitler's plan for Poland was to destroy the Poles as a people. To do that, the Nazis needed to destroy the two things that gave the Polish their identity: their shared Catholic faith and their sense of themselves as a nation.

The 'Persian Wars', as the two campaigns of 490 BCE and 480–479 BCE have been known ever since, were over.

Ares personified war, Dionysus the emotions and intoxication, Hermes trickery.

As the century wore on, the Delian League was matched by the 'Peloponnesian League'

This was what the Spartans had most dreaded for centuries. Now it came to pass.

compelling the Spartans to grant them their liberty as an autonomous city-state?

Pompey went on to roll up what little was left of the Seleucid kingdom of Asia three years later

Heraclius made a humiliating offer of peace.

Heraclius entered Persia from the north and the Sassanid Empire imploded.

And the trophy itself consisted of precisely three hundred captured suits of armour.

When Helen deserted her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta, and eloped with the handsome Trojan prince Paris

The military machine that had humbled Athens in the Peloponnesian War had become simply irrelevant.

The war lasted ten years, so the story goes.

In the years 416 and 415 BCE, Athens had recovered sufficiently to embark on two of the most notorious episodes of the war

War leaves a legacy of human suffering that does not end with peace.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

The liberators were not liberators. They were other occupiers. When

War was not dependent on personal volition; it was an unceasing imperial project, authorized by Islam.

To carry out war, three things are necessary," remarked the Milanese general Marshal Trivulzio presciently in 1499, "money, money and yet more money.