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Quotes About War

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!
~ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
~ William T. Sherman
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
~ Eve Merriam
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
~ Robert E. Lee
Love is a conquest! Love is war!
~ Marissa Meyer, Fairest
Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
~ Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom
Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.
~ Rick Yancey, The Last Star
He thinks Goliath can end the war, " Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all, " Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
War made the state, and the state made war
~ Charles Tilly
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
~ Thomas Paine
You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.
~ Paul Langan, The Fallen
They won the war but lost the peace,
~ Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin
My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.
~ Elle Jasper, Afterlight
Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.
~ Patricia Briggs, Frost Burned
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!
~ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Right, " said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.
~ Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.
~ James Henry Gooding
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
~ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.
~ Rachel Caine
Panic bells, it's red alertThere's something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by
~ Nena
Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
~ Philip Caputo, A Rumor Of War