Quotes About War

If we then ask what sort of mind is likeliest to display the qualities of military genius, experience and observation will both tell us that it is the inquiring rather than the creative mind, the comprehensive rather than the specialized approach, the calm rather than the excitable head to which in war we would choose to entrust...

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

der Handelnde im Kriege die Dinge unaufhörlich anders findet, als er sie erwartet hatte

Ma nel castello delli antichi Signori, dopo il veleno antico, il ferro, e i libri del male, erano dolci, nobili donne: ed era la bimba che tanto aveva sognato, e così amaramente pianto: e l'immagine benedicente di Lei, che a ognuno sovviene: e nell'ora di male e di guerra e nell'ora che ha morte, stanco, il nostro pensiero mortale.››

It was both a religious and an economic war, for in those early days of global vandalism the sword and the cross went together.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

A guerra terminou ontem mas ainda há batalhas dentro no peito que estão reclamando herois

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

In forts built for war, defensive ditches are always on the outside to stop enemies getting in. At religious sites, ditches are placed inside the banks to stop supernatural powers within the circle getting out.

Somehow many have convinced themselves that the man who pulled the United States back into some semblance of financial health, reduced unemployment to its lowest level in decades, secured health insurance for millions of citizens, ended one of our recent, all-too-intractable wars in the Middle East, reduced the staggering deficit he inherited from George W. Bush, and masterminded the takedown of Osama bin Laden actually hates America.76

It was obvious, whether North or South, that no militia was going to stop a foreign invasion. The war proved that beyond a reasonable doubt.127 What the militia could do rather well, however, as George Mason noted, was keep slave owners safe.

In August 1862, he lectured five black leaders whom he had summoned to the White House that it was their duty, given what their people had done to the United States, to accept the exodus to South America, telling them, "But for your race among us there could not be war."10 As to just how and why "your race" came to be "among us," Lincoln conveniently ignored.

The world goes on, little Seri," he said. "A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

Wars will never be overcome until the belief that is is justifiable to take life, to kill - when expedient - is eradicated from human consciousness." - Agnes Ryan

If the wartime killing of human beings is used to establish the legitimacy of meat eating, then challenging meat eating challenges a world at war.

It is as though the way to create a child's acceptance of animals' deaths is by convincing him or her that sometimes humans must be killed too. "Just" wars justify meat eating.

Even before the war's end, Alexander was recognized as the most accomplished artillerist in the Army of Northern Virginia.

Why was it so easy for a dumb animal to find peace and happiness in this world, while human beings created wars so they could hack at one another, spending untold hours thinking up new ways to inflict harm?

Don't be afraid to make a poem raw as sandpaper. And even though a million protests, twice as many feet, couldn't stop a war, get out there with your small voice, your light tread.

O homem só dá valor ao homem depois que morre. Se os homens governam o mundo, ele nunca está bom para o povo viver, por que não deixar as mulheres governarem? As mulheres não fariam guerras, porque elas são as mães dos homens. Mas os homens são os pais dos homens, fazem guerras, e matam-se.

The dispossession of the Dakota, the Homestead Act of 1862, and the war that they touched off set the stage for Laura Ingalls Wilder's life.

I am a wounded soldier of Love home from WWIII.

What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his, sulks in his tent for eight books and spends the ninth telling Agamemnon he's had enough and he's going home.

1453: FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE You might not think it was a big deal (after all, cities were falling all over the place all of the time)