Quotes About War

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

No, it's not! says Emby. Hey—he wanted my opinion, I gave it. But it's wrong! You see, Hayden? You see what you started? Yes! Hayden says excitedly. It looks like we're about to have our own little Heartland War. Pity it's too dark for us to watch it.

Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue—a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

It began the night we died on the Kamikaze.

Before the Thunderhead, governments had constitutions and massive tomes of laws - yet even then, they were forever debated and challenged and manipulated. Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

Tyger Salazar had been his best friend—but such designations meant little after one has spent a year learning how to kill. Rowan imagined it must be what mortal-age soldiers felt when they returned from war. Old friendships seemed trapped behind a clouded curtain of experiences that old friends didn't share.

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.

It was easy for Nietzsche to praise Wagner in Germany in 1876, but dangerous at Paris in 1861 to declare war on Wagner's adverse critics. This Baudelaire did.

nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to protect me from Hitler so I snapped the radio off and then heard his wife say, you shouldn't have done that. and the soldier said, FUCK THAT GUY! which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. of course, she never did.

God damn the geraniums! ...It was like trying to screw during an aerial attack.

There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Fay had grey hair and always dressed in black. She said she was protesting the war.

Después de todo ¿por qué era necesario amar a un ser humano? Nunca duraba mucho. Había demasiadas diferencias entre cada individuo, y lo que empezaba siendo amor acababa siempre en guerra despiadada

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

as the night darkened I'd go back to Pershing Square and sit on the benches and watch and listen to the people. the winos on the lawn passed bottles of muscatel and port about as the war rushed toward us.

I remember when I was a kid I read this book by Hemingway. A guy climbed into bed with this woman again and again and he couldn't do it although he loved the woman and she loved him. My god, I thought, what a great book. All these centuries and nobody has written about this aspect of the thing. I thought the guy was just too blissfully dumb-ass to do it. Later on I read in the book that he'd had his genitals shot off in the war. What a let-down.

No hay guerras buenas o malas. Lo unico malo de una guerra es perderla. En todas las guerras ambos lados creen pelear por una buena causa. No se trata de saber quien tiene o no la razón, ¡se trata de comprobar quien tiene los mejores generales y el mejor ejercito!