Quotes About War

And so they opened the door to the idea that in the name of future peace, any and all means might be justified—including even exterminatory war."108 Kant himself despised this turn, noting that such a war "would allow perpetual peace only upon the graveyard of the whole human race." And the American framers, equally aware of the crooked timber of humanity, were positively phobic about the prospect of imperial or messianic leaders.

As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

The last night of love, the first night of war

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

August 2nd, 2006 is just a taste of what war is. We lost two people that day. There are companies, battalions that have lost half, most of their unit. You look at the numbers from WW2 or Vietnam, it's astounding.

Porque se mata por tres razones: amor, dinero o venganza. Las demás son estúpidas; entre ellas, la guerra.

Les guerres teixeixen camins estranys i històries curioses, però la vida sempre acaba tancant els cercles del temps.

Vestía con la misma sobriedad que el hombre de la escopeta: ropas sencillas, discretas, con aire de usadas, pero aun con ellas no perdía el punto de elegancia y clase, la dignidad de la que siempre se había revestido. La misma que no se perdía ni se ganaba con una guerra, porque iba pegada a la piel y al carácter como un sello de poder.

Deixemos, sim, em paz os gregos. Mas, nus ou vestidos, menos do que humanos, eles divinamente são a guerra em nós. Ah não as guerras sanguinárias, o sofrer que seja o bem e o mal, e a dor de não ser livre. Mas sim o viver com fúria, este gastar da vida, este saber que a vida é coisa que se ensina, mas não se aprende. Apenas pode ser dançada.

La paz duerme a la sombra de las espadas

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Narración despiadada a la hora de mostrar los entresijos del poder, las raíces más hondas de la corrupción y su alcance, así como los embotados mecanismos de la justicia, Una novela criminal es también una valiente denuncia del coste social de las políticas que declaran la guerra al crimen sin poner freno a sus causas.