Quotes About War

If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!""Well, I am, " said Sal. "So can we go... please?

Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.

We've been put into war, between body and soul. 28.06.11

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl's snuggling and cuddling.

War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)

There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history... is the will of a single man.

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

Humans without humanity, war_torn world for eternity

The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.

War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great