Quotes About War

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.

While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

A bad peace is worse than war.

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.