Quotes About War

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

A Boy Out of the noise of tired people working, Harried with thoughts of war and lists of dead, His beauty met me like a fresh wind blowing, Clean boyish beauty and high-held head. Eyes that told secrets, lips that would not tell them, Fearless and shy the young unwearied eyes-- Men die by millions now, because God blunders, Yet to have made this boy he must be wise.

In the whole, long war, Seceshes never took one black prisoner of war. It was slavery or death if they caught you.

Again and again, readers told me about the altered version of history they'd been taught during their required two years of state history. It was news to many of these extremely well-educated, progressive readers that Texas had fought not one, but two wars for the right to own slaves.

It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

President Obama is asking Congress to support a military strike in Syria. If they approve, it will be the first time Congress has officially declared war since Obamacare.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.