Quotes About War

o era el hombre más honesto ni el más piadoso, pero era un hombre valiente. Se llamaba Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, y había luchado como soldado de los tercios viejos en las guerras de Flandes.

Manuel Azaña, por ejemplo, resumió bastante bien el paisaje en sus memorias, cuando escribió aquello de Reducir aquellas masas a la disciplina, hacerlas entrar en una organización militar del Estado, con mandos dependientes del gobierno, para sostener la guerra conforme a los planes de un estado mayor, constituyó el problema capital de la República.

A los combatientes españoles muertos por Francia. Y vaya si combatieron. Unos, capturados por los nazis y rechazados por la España franquista, acabaron en campos de exterminio.

se limitaban a hacer recuento rutinario de bajas, vendar heridas y agradecer sin palabras, a Dios o al diablo, el hecho de seguir vivos.

En cuestión de afectos, la guerra era el país de los hombres solos.

todos aquellos infelices, los soldados que acuden a disparar por las portas, los reclutas de leva, los campesinos sacados de sus casas, los mendigos, la chusma arrancada de tabernas, hospicios y penales que ahora se afana en torno a los cañones, asomados a la boca misma del infierno, corean con rugidos que sí, que vivaspaña, cagüensanpedro y cagüentodo, joder, Santa María, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores.

Aquellos a quienes he visto morir lo hacen sin gritar viva la República ni viva nada. Sólo caen y se quedan quietos para siempre.

Y fue entonces cuando el capitán de la Cuesta, que andaba fatal de lenguas extranjeras pero tenía una memoria estupenda, dijo aquello de «ni srinden, ni veijiven, ni la puta que los parió, sin cuartel, señores, acordaos, ni un hereje vivo en este reducto»

Abajo hay miedo, sufrimiento y muerte. Hay guerra. Y todo parece ser tan normal que podríamos olvidarlo. Así es nuestro mundo. Todo parece ser normal, a pesar de que se están cometiendo crímenes todos los días, en grande o pequeña escala, junto a nosotros, en medio de nosotros o por medio de nosotros.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban ' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its potential damage to the quality of human life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might well be called the 'Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.' Its more conventional name, of course, is dehumanization.

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren't planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government's genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

Before the Civil War, the northern industrial economy was largely dependent on southern cotton. The slave economy of the South was a threat to northern capitalism. What if the slaveholders of the South decided to set up factories and process the cotton themselves? Northern capitalists could not possibly compete with slave labor, and their capitalist economy would be destroyed. To ensure that this didn't happen, the North went to war.

I wondered how all those people in the states who tried to sound tough, saying that the u.s. should go in here, bomb there, take over this, attack that, would feel if they knew that they were indirectly responsible for babies being burned to death.

Northern whites were more than happy at the prospect of Black people fighting in the war. A popular verse published in the newspapers of the day reflected the sentiment of many Northerners: Some say it is a burnin' shame To make the naygurs fight An' that the trade o' bein' kilt Belongs but to the white; But as for me upon me sowl, So liberal are we here, I'll let Sambo be murthered in place o' meself On every day in the year.

An aboveground political organization can't wage guerrilla war anymore than an underground army can do aboveground political work. Although the two must work together, they must have completely separate structures, and any links between the two must remain secret.

A poster of the massacre at My Lai, picturing women and children lying clumped together in a heap, their bodies riddled with bullets, hung on my wall as a daily reminder of the brutality in the world.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Those who don't know how to make love, make war.

ceux qui ne savent pas faire l'amour, font la guerre.

Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.

His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse.