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Quotes About War

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai
~ Jonathan Glover
Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.
~ Duane Hewitt
If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.
~ Patrick Ness, Snowscape
My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider
~ PureDragonWolf
When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.
~ Steve Maraboli
The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.
~ Todd Stocker
From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.
~ Alephonsion Deng
humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity
~ Mouloud Benzadi
War does one good—it teaches people geography.
~ Will Durant, The Age of Faith
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik
~ Chris Hedges
Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.
~ G.R. Gopinath
A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan
~ Tom Hanks
Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
~ Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.
~ John Hersey
Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.
~ Terry Kay
It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
~ Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.
~ George McClellandin Blue
War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
I may have not done History in high school but War cannot be ended by endless talks, only Cold War.
~ Goitsemang Mvula