Quotes About War

Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.