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Quotes About War

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
~ Thomas Jefferson
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
~ Henry Rollins
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
~ David Gemmell, Dark Moon
Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.
~ Jillian Lauren
Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?
~ Noam Chomsky
No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
~ Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
~ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
~ William Thomas Cummings
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
~ Peter Jennings
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
~ Elihu Root
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
~ Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.
~ Widad Akreyi
War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
~ Ian Rankin, Blood Hunt
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
~ Alan Alda
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
~ Jeff Shaara
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
~ Suzanne Collins
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
~ Camille Paglia
At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.
~ Donald Evans
You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.
~ Millie
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
~ Cory Doctorow