Quotes About War

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

you cannot operate on the sea during war unless you have command of the sea, the air above it, and the depths beneath it.

Bismarck once said, 'Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.

It should not be thought that war, often accompanied by genocide, is a cultural artifact of a few societies. Nor has it been an aberration of history, a result of the growing pains of our species' maturation. Wars and genocide have been universal and eternal, respecting no particular time or culture.

HISTORY IS A bath of blood," wrote William James

Out of the warlike peoples arose civilization, while the peaceful collectors and hunters were driven to the ends of the earth, where they are gradually being exterminated or absorbed, with only the dubious satisfaction of observing the nations which had wielded war so effectively to destroy them and to become great, now victimized by their own instrument.

The ongoing mass extinction of species, and with it the extinction of genes and ecosystems, ranks with pandemics, world war, and climate change as among the deadliest threats that humanity has imposed on itself.

For the French army was going to war. In taxis.

Our concern is the invisible wounding from war. The physical wounds are most visible to our veterans who deserve first concern. But in truth we are all wounded. Grandparents, parents, siblings, children, friends, neighbors, care providers, teachers, taxpayers are all caught in war's long and crushing tentacles. Our entire society reels in pain, exhaustion, despair, and debt. Look closely. All lives are affected and we all need be concerned.

What if significant reasons our veterans suffer in epidemic numbers lie, to paraphrase Shakespeare, "not in the veterans but in ourselves"? What if the sources of traumatic breakdown are in society; in our beliefs and practices; in the reasons and ways we prepare for and make war; and in the ways we neglect or fail our troops before, during, and after service? What if veterans are carrying our collective war wounding alone because it is denied and disowned by society at large?

One to destroy, is murder by the law;And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;To murder thousands takes a specious name,War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

Success does not mean the absence of failures. It means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

After the Great War broke out in Europe there began the rise in the prices of commodities that was to be expected. It was as easy to foresee that as to foresee war inflation.

In our day the first interest of most men is business and after that sports; in medieval times the dominant interest was war and after that sports, but there was not too much difference since sports were warlike too.

Manufacturers of various weapons and its political puppets in power and authority are responsible for the wars, killings and the failure of global peace and stability. Thus, the United Nations rules and resolutions exhibit only self-humiliation.

Osama Bin Laden, an alleged killer of Americans, caused eleven years of war to kill him, killing uncountable innocents; conversely, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an obvious murderer of Indian and Kashmiri Muslims, became honourable of the White House, welcoming by the US President Joe Biden. In such a scenario, does the world honestly expect global peace?

Peace increases; whereas, war decreases, every context and way of life and system.

Respect, and justice, within the frame of equality, flowers, and fragrances the peace and love, not the resolutions and wars.

The young man rushed toward them. "Stand and fight!" he was shouting. "Is running away the Yoshioka version of the Art of War? I personally don't want to kill you, but my Drying Pole's still thirsty. The least you can do, cowards that you are, is leave your heads behind.

The most important principle For victory in war Is having your soldiers Die gladly.

I have waited all my life for permission. I feel it growing in my breast. A war is storming and it is behind me and I am moving my forces into light.

Hubo un hombre cuya actuación en la guerra de Cuba culmina en los horizontes de mi memoria, como culmina un astro en su perihelio.