Quotes About War

To this day, religious people kill each other and kill each other's children for the right to exclusive property in this unidentifiable and unlocatable hole in a hill.

In the first half of the century, British intelligence was principally a machine for involving the United States in war on the British side.

the gore-soaked landscape of the Old Testament.

Osje?ate ih sve oko sebe, kako no?as pužu prema gradu, kao ogromna pustoš neprijatnog okeana — osuti gredicama bez liš?a i zale?enim jezerima i sitnim selima koja ostaju u sje?anju samo po neobi?nim imenima bojišta iz poluzaboravljenih ratova.

?udno je, ali se ne sje?am da sam se uopšte plašio, prihva?ao sam to. ?inilo mi se sasvim prirodno da svi treba da umremo. To je vjerovatno bio opšti mentalitet ratnog vremena.

From jygging vaines of riming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keepes in pay, Weele leade you to the stately tent of War: Where you shall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine, Threatning the world with high astounding tearms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword. View but his picture in this tragicke glasse, And then applaud his fortunes if you please.

YOUNG MORTIMER: Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace, Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils, Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame, Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name, Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall, And welter in thy gore. LANCASTER: Monster of men! That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to arms And bloody wars so many valiant knights; Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death! King Edward is not here to buckler thee.

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.

You love your wars for the coffers, but for the warrior and the widow, the orphan and the owned, you've not two dry fucks to give.

A general who wages war for a republic whose cause is not just would make devils of soldiers, and turn honor to evil.

War is the lifeblood of this merchant republic.

This is why we send youth to war: spotty lads possessed of passion but void of purpose will cleave to the most slippery species of bullshit.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

Let's drop rocks on them!

When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

The true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

The soldiers cringed

She was unsurprised to see that the war had resulted in an unprecedented drawing together of humanity. Even the Zarians had put aside their differences with the League in order to join forces against their shared enemies. What was the point of arguing amongst yourselves if the monsters in the dark were attacking?

If any honor existed in war, he concluded, it was in fighting to protect others from harm.

Like much else, killing was something one could get used to.

War, a struggle between "our people" and "the enemy," creates a polarized world in which "the enemy" is easily objectified and removed from the community of human obligation.

German business fed on forced labor throughout the war, exploiting the SS extermination-through-work programs to fulfill military production contracts. Contrary to postwar claims, the initiative for these programs came from industry, not from the Nazi state.

The murder program accelerated in the spring of 1943. German troops entered the Warsaw ghetto and killed thousands of Jews in street fighting. In the south, the Nazis began deporting Greek Jews from Salonika to Auschwitz. In the north, they deported Dutch Jews to Sobibor, gassing about 34,000 people there as they arrived. The SS also arranged a special transport for 3,000 Jewish mothers and children from the Netherlands; they murdered all of them.11

Cardinal Schuster and Monsignor Bicchierai had long been among the most prominent clerical supporters of fascism in Italy, according to SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann, who handled negotiations with the Vatican for the SS during the last days of the war.