Quotes About War

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

War is the national industry of Prussia.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.

Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

Peace is not the mere absence of war. It is a positive condition of justice. It is the sister of charity and mercy. It is the offspring of honesty and truth. It is the triumph of principle.

To Lady Bird Johnson Not all the soldiers were in Vietnam. This one was in the White House.

The sword is brother to the olive wreath.

George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

Our innocence had been replaced by fear and we had become monsters. There was nothing we could do about it.

I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn't. The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think

Cuervos sobre la llanura sembrada de muertos, como en las viejas baladas.

The streets were empty, the courtyards and gardens as if dead. In the Turkish houses depression and confusion reigned, in the Christian houses caution and distrust. But everywhere and for everyone there was fear. The entering Austrians feared an ambush. The Turks feared the Austrians. The Serbs feared both Austrians and Turks. The Jews feared everything and everyone since, especially in times of war, everyone was stronger than they.

Dünyan?n bir taraf?nda bir yerde, bir piyango çekiliyor, sava? yap?l?yor ve hepimizin al?nyaz?s? da böylece uzak­larda belirtiliyordu.

u naše vreme i najve?i ratovi i najsavršenije pobede retko i nepotpuno rešavaju pitanja zbog kojih se ratovalo i pobedilo, ali zato otvaraju redovno velik broj novih i teških pitanja.