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Quotes About War

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.
~ Talaat Pasha
I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.
~ Julian Assange
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
~ Tom Hayden
To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.
~ Pope Francis
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
~ Primo Levi
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
~ Jacques Maritain
Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.
~ Robin Oliveira
What's so civil about war anyway?
~ Axl Rose
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.
~ Phil Ochs
Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.
~ Country Joe McDonald
We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.
~ Ramsay MacDonald
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration
~ Hideki Tojo
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.
~ Howard Zinn
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
~ Maurice Ravel
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
~ George Orwell
The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
~ Bashar al-Assad
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
~ Victor Hugo
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
~ Howard Zinn
I, too, saw God through mud
~ Wilfred Owen
September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.
~ Norman Finkelstein
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
~ Henry A. Kissinger