Quotes About War

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

In 2012, I got hit by an IED in Afghanistan.

I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been in the military; he had been to war. I would hear stories about different experiences he went through, but as I got older, my father moved away.

With sport dramas and war movies, it is always about accomplishment, where people are fighting for their country or community's honour.

I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

People have always complained that we have made films ahead of times. 'Hum Dono' is still modern. We had wars then, and we have wars today. We had love and separation then, and we have that today.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

The BET definition of a humanitarian is someone who perpetuates a war on cops.

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

This, like all the other British communiqués, was completely untrue. After two years of war, the British government and its servants were finally learning to behave like cads.

We created an establishment which contributed more to the war effort than any other weapons design department,' said Macrae. But it was an establishment so ungentlemanly in its outlook that it was to be for ever erased from history.

A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love machine, revolutionary machine, etc.—and an abstract machine that sweeps them along? We have been criticized for overquoting literary authors. But when one writes, the only question is which other machine the literary machine can be plugged into, must be plugged into in order to work.

Spero solo che si rafforzi la convinzione, in coloro che decideranno di leggere quete pagine, che le guerre, tutte le guerre sono un orrore. E che non ci si può voltare dall'altra parte, per non vedere le facce di quanti soffrono in silenzio.

Come può un'organizzazzione che si occupa delle vittime di guerra andarsene via, quando la guerra si fa più vicina e più violenta? E cosa diciamo al nostro staff e ai nosti pazienti: è stato bello, ma in fondo era un gioco, arrivederci e grazie, e scusate il disturbo?