Quotes About War

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.

As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

wars are fought so that peace can be achieved talk about irony

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

A nation that is built on war will forever have conflict.

Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.