Quotes About War

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.

My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended because of that.

We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.

Obviously my dad served in the Korean War. He was a Master Sergeant when he was 18 years old.

The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was used in the Iranian-Iraq War.

I remember during the Gulf War, my father's ship had just finished a deployment in in the Gulf and was on its way back when the war started in Kuwait. They turned around and went back to the Gulf.

In a moment of imagined separation, we become self-conscious and self-absorbed, and we assume we are less worthy than every other person we encounter. We want to hide out and yet be noticed. When this happens to nations of people, wars start.

The war mages might have been running a full-on offensive, but she'd been right there with them. She'd sent them screaming in terror. She'd imprisoned one like a bug under glass. She'd run one the hell down. Mom, I realized in shock, had been kind of a badass.

He's a war mage. They're almost impossible to kill." He scowled. "Even on purpose.

I have a theory about war mages," I said. "The more powerful they are, the worse the hair.

I left it with a warmer," he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.

True holy war in human history has ceased because Jesus has fought its last episode on the cross.

Mortals are strange creatures; they cling to life even when that life is nothing but pain and misery, yet they will throw away their lives for a word, an idea, even a flag. Wolves piss to mark their territory. Smell the stench of another pack and wolves will quietly slink away. Why risk a fight when it might maim or kill you? But humans will slash and slaughter in their thousands to plant their little piece of cloth on a hill or hang it from a battlement.

He'd had all day to think about how he might manage this escapade without getting caught. The wars had taught him that rash courage was no substitute for a careful plan. But fate does not always cooperate with the plans of men.

I understood that Death wasn't the one to be feared. War was the one that laid waste to lives. Death was just the cleanup guy, the janitor, the final act.

To who? Your god may love soul mates but man does not. Such a couple is vulnerable, particularly if they are fool enough to let the world see how shiny and happy they are. Their risk rises tenfold during times of war. There are two courses a couple in such circumstances can chart: go deep into the country and hide as far from humanity as possible, hoping like hell nobody finds them. Because the world will tear them apart." He is wrong. He knows nothing of soul mates.

And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a pleasure—if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war.

Once, he told them the truth. Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. The man to whom he'd entrusted the tablet promptly shattered it, chiseled ten precise commands upon two stone slabs and carried them down a mountain with the pomp and circumstance of a prophet. Religious wars ravaged that world ever since.

He is War. Divisiveness. Brutality. Heinous crimes against humanity. As an event on the battlefield, and the personification of it in a cage, he is all that and more. How many humans fell before the murderous hooves of this sly horseman of the apocalypse? Nearly half the world's population, by last count.

A part of me wishes they'd all just stand up and battle to the death. Make it simple. Take control through bloodshed and war.

Even I know it's impossible in times of war to save everyone. For the love of Mary, it's impossible in times of peace.