Quotes About War

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

Ride of the Valkyries

Hitler, in fact, was not at all doomed to lose the war. In summer 1940, peace reigned in Europe. The greatest European conflict, that between Germany and France, had already been settled, and only the British were still fighting a rearguard action against German supremacy. What is more, in 1940 Hitler was still riding on an enormous groundswell of goodwill.

Siedler: 'I remember talking to this young officer whose only concern was whether he would be shot or hanged. The noose, he

EVER SINCE 29 SEPTEMBER, 1938, discussions about war and peace in Europe have revolved around the same, fearful question: will this be a Sarajevo or a Munich? In other words: can a great deal of diplomacy achieve a shaky balance, or must evil be crushed by force? We know that, in both cases, a war was the result, we know that everything went wrong afterwards, but each time we come back to those two cities, those contrapuntal reference points for the twentieth

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

Christmas dawned clear and cold; lovely weather for killing Germans, although the thought seemed somewhat at variance with the spirit of the day.

Yesterday Iraq had the fourth largest Army in the world. Today they have the second largest Army in Iraq.

I didn't ask you to give up anything for me," she told him, "but I would have given up everything for you." The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The battle had been over before it began. "Until the end of forever, Layel." -DELILAH

I'm living my happily-ever-after already," he replied, and she smiled. "In shadow, you are my light." With their foreheads pressed together, she responded in kind. "In ice, you are my warmth." "In life and in death, your love guides me home." He kissed her. "In war, you are my prize. In darkness, you are my sun.

Emotions. A waste of energy in Zacharel's estimation. You lived, you warred and one day you died. Anything else was unnecessary.

I curse you, William of the Dark. I curse you to a life of misery and war with those you care about. A life devoid of genuine companionship. But. If ever you do fall in love...if ever the object of your affection falls in love with you in return...I curse her to lose her mind along with her heart. She will attack you, again and again, and she will not stop until you are dead.

Yes. Me. I'm an immortal made for war, and killing is what I do. What I'm good at. I do not live by the same rules as other people, those who do not have to fight to retain their liberties, those who let others do the fighting for them, then scoff at the results." - Knox

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

I know war as few men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Absolute liberty of military action in time of war is an indispensable condition of military success…. It is a gratuitous illusion to suppose that modern war does not demand far more brutality, far more violence, and an action far more general than was formerly the case.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Self-restraint, which is a choice, is all that separates armistice and war.

General William T. Sherman

People do keep on talking about wanting a war so that their side will win. But ultimately all they really want is for their side to be a bit better off. Nobody wishes for their side to triumph completely.

end) CLAUDIA There are definitely a lot of very important lessons to be learned from The War. But I can't think of what they are right now, and I have to go meet Sophie and Carmen at Starbucks in ten minutes to strategize the best way to handle the Jens situation.

When two nations had a contradictory assessment of their own military power and the issue at state was vital to both nations, war was likely.