Quotes About War

In the most heavily bombed part of the country—a high, strategically located plateau in the middle of Laos, called the Plain of Jars, the American bombing runs almost never paused. Of the roughly 150,000 people who lived on the Plain of Jars before the 1960s, only about 9,000 remained at the end of the decade.37 After the war, one-third of the bombs dropped on Laos remained in the ground and undetonated.

Asked by an audience member at a public meeting whether he agreed with Hitler, Labour MP Rhys John Davies answered that he hated Hitler – as did the German people. He went on to argue that this would be the last war Britain would ever fight as a great power. In future, he claimed, 'we should be a sort of vassal state of America.

United States ambassador, Joseph Kennedy, who had just told Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, that he was disgusted with Britain's performance. Britain would, Kennedy was quite sure, lose the war.

Isle of Guernsey, meanwhile, was responsible for picking Flying Officer Ken Newton out of the sea. Newton was an RAF pilot who had bailed out after a dogfight. Like the character Collins in the film, he was helped out of the water by sailors. The sailors were killed, however, by German aircraft raking them with machine-gun fire as they

he merged his group with the small Imperial Fascist League to form the Union, which changed its name in 1936 to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists. When the war began, its leaders were arrested and locked away.

Strangely enough, I am beginning to feel like an exile when I go to a polling station in PA and people hold placards approving attacking Middle Eastern countries, supporting the troops. Imagine if in Nazi Germany people said, Look, we know the war is wrong, but we love our boys and we support them. It's the wrong time to withhold our support now that they are struggling for German ideals, defending Auschwitz. The comparison is extreme, but why support the troops in an unsupportable war?

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

The senior matriculation exams obliterate everything. Even, it seems to me, if a war were on in Canada, I'd be found studying like deaf Beethoven playing his piano while Vienna burned.

All this suffering,' I said, 'and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.' 'Have another soda-mint,' said Charles. I had one. Then I said, 'Why are we here? That's what I don't understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?' 'I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.' 'Then why do we want to be happy? Mould on cheese doesn't want to be happy.' ...

They seemed to arrive at some form of friendship. Maybe they were like a couple of weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by side in the trenches, and having no inclination to relive the old battles found a certain comfort in the simple knowledge that they'd been young together and present at the same terrible moments of bloodshed. Even though, in their case the injury sustained there was my mother's t the hands of my father.

The last day of April, Hitler killed himself—which was a sure sign the war wasn't going his way.

En verdad, si no existía ya una confianza en el futuro ni un apego a la tierra ni una verdadera fe en las creencias, ¿por qué no volver al terreno del odio? Sólo de la derrota podía surgir algo nuevo; no ha sido así, pero eso no quita nada al hecho de que fuera la mejor razón para hacer la guerra: poderla perder.

Era la guerra de una generación desprevenida; y su mayor peligro radicaba precisamente en la fe intacta de los pueblos en la justicia unilateral de su causa

Los dos grupos que hasta ayer se mataban se encuentran a mitad de camino en medio de la desolación, entre embudos cenagosos, cadáveres semienterrados y chatarra bélica oxidada. Alemanes e ingleses se contemplan, astrosos, barbudos, sucios, tan parecidos si no fuera por el uniforme, tan humanos, tan distintos de como los presentan las caricaturas de la propaganda.

Las once! La guerra ha terminado. Un clamor se eleva de las trincheras. Gorros al aire. Abrazos. Lágrimas que dejan regueros claros al deslizarse por rostros negros de mugre e intemperie. Sobreviviré. Podré contarles a mis nietos cómo fue esto.

Aquella noche en la que nació Jesús, en Belén, dio comienzo una guerra sin cuartel que no concluirá hasta que Cristo vuelva

The same generation that believed premarital sex was a sin thought it was perfectly fine to send their young people off to die in a senseless war.

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war.

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

We have regressed to the times of the wars of religion; divided, betrayed, threatened if we do not think as the others think or if we refuse to use the same formulas and cry the same watchwords. And tomorrow, ready to kill each other in the name of free will. Refusing to consider the realities he finds disagreeable, each adversary blinds himself with his own convictions and no longer considers those that might help him to comprehend the problem.

The demands of war provided Hitler with just the excuse he was looking for to rid the regime not only of Jews, but also of Gypsies, socialists, the disabled and mentally ill, homosexuals, Poles, communists, or anyone else who did not fit the National Socialist ideal. The elimination of those deemed undesirable became an issue of prime importance.