Quotes About War

add to all the others he had levied for the war.

that the Great War had made mass slaughter ordinary, that was why Stalin and Hitler could commit murder on a scale inconceivable before 1914. It was why these old men could talk like Soviet Commissars or SS men.

For me they weren't just names. I look over the desks and think, this boy sat here, that one there. I pray to the Good Lord another war never comes.

In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.

If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else." For

If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Chapter 95 Fairfield, Connecticut – May 8, 2015 "No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

The desire for peace fills our hands with purpose during the day; the fear of war haunts our dreams at night.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

It's peculiar, our nature to want to save others. During the war, you worked feverishly to save the children. Lilli was doing her best to save you, I was trying to save the men in my section, and , by the time it was over , we all failed. But Audrey, did we ? Because here you are, popping up out of nowhere, your box bringing with it a whispered feeling that you are here to prod ne forward. And so, perhaps, we are all saving each other after all

In my fairy- tale ending, we would have both survived the war and called it a miracle, but it seems that triumph in life is infinitely more subtle. I am damaged from the war, but I'm not broken. My heart is, at times, lonely, but I am still loved. Life was never meant to be as perfect as I had supposed; rather we are to adapt, make our best choices, and then live with the consequences, learning that it will all be okay.

We were just so glad to finally have the war over, nobody seemed to care who had won. We didn't understand that peace at any price is a fool's bargain. We welcomed apathy with open arms, invited it over for dinner, offered it keys to the spare bedroom, then silently slept while it sneaked up behind and cut our throats.

We were just so glad to finally have the war over, nobody seemed to care who had won. We didn't understand that peace at any price is a fool's bargain. We welcomed apathy with open arms, invited it over for dinner, offered it keys to the spare bedroom, then silently slept while it sneaked up behind and cut our throats. We wanted change. Could the new leaders be any worse than those who had just been overthrown? I would find out that very day.

I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war

Long before it was over, the war would also change the empire in another, equally indelible way: It would bring to the attention of a rapt British public a young man named Winston Churchill.

In the darkest days of the Civil War, he had wondered if the war itself was God's punishment for the horrors of slavery. "For what else are we so fearfully scourged and defeated?" he had asked.

Of course I deprecate war," he wrote, "but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

Of course a man has to take advantage of his opportunities, but the opportunities have to come," he told an audience in Cambridge, England, in the spring of 1910. "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now.

The World War was such an irruption which showed, as nothing else could, how thin are the walls which separate a well-ordered world from lurking chaos.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life." —Maya Angelou

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.