Quotes About War

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere.

Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins. It is the smell of War.

War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble.