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Quotes About War

La razón principal de que la guerra siga con nosotros no es un secreto deseo de muerte de la especie humana, ni un irreprimible instinto de agresión ni, final y más plausiblemente, los serios peligros económicos y sociales inherentes al desarme, sino el simple hecho de que no haya aparecido todavía en la escena política un sustituto de este árbitro final.
~ Hannah Arendt
To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.
~ Hannah Senesh
Relationships and marriages are hard enough, but you add war into the mix and small fissures become gaping wounds. No one sees what you're seeing—again that clear-eyed, unbiased thing—except your fellow soldiers. It's like one of those movies where only the hero can see the ghosts and everyone else thinks the hero is crazy. In
~ Harlan Coben
Years ago, Myron had found this all somewhat poignant and oddly comforting—the war relic now housing artists—but the world was different now. In the eighties and nineties, it had all been cute and quaint. Now this "progress" felt like phony symbolism. Near
~ Harlan Coben
War is never a meritocracy for the casualties .
~ Harlan Coben
War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. Shane's
~ Harlan Coben
Emily pinned him with her eyes. "Custody battles are war without the Geneva Accords," she said. "Greg got nasty. I got nasty back. You do whatever you have to in order to win.
~ Harlan Coben
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
~ Alfred Nobel
I didn't hear anybody talking about the plight of a soldier coming back home and what he'd gone through. That was why I wrote about that stuff. If somebody else had done it, I probably wouldn't have touched the subject.
~ John Prine
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
~ Dennis Miller
Legend' is a stylised film. The character I play is a complete egoist. He cannot tolerate anyone touching him or slapping him. Whenever anyone antagonises him, he becomes cruel. That's how the 'war' between the hero and him starts. It's a solid meaty break for me!
~ Jagapathi Babu
The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, 'get tough' mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us.
~ Michelle Alexander
My father was a Marine who fought in the Pacific in WW II. He was a very tough guy, but after the war, he lived his life in a quiet and reserved manner because he had nothing to prove. I know now that he internalized his war experience.
~ George Pelecanos
The Internet connection from the road can be spotty, so usually when I'm on the tour bus, I'm playing 'God of War.'
~ Big Show
I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
~ Chris Gibson
I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.
~ Josh Mandel
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
~ Mark Burnett
I have a brother who has been overseas for two tours. I've been very fortunate that he has come home safely. Whether or not you support the war, always support our soldiers.
~ Diana DeGarmo
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
~ Henry Villard
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
~ Dennis Ross
Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.
~ Stand Watie
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
~ Bruno Schulz
When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.
~ Alek Wek
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
~ Roger Bannister