Quotes About War

The W-Bomb was to be the first weapon of war that could both sink a ship and cure a hangover.

Mais c'est toujours ainsi en temps de guerre : les chefs aiment à décréter, du fond de leur quartier général, l'ordre de se faire tuer sur place, alors même qu'il suffirait d'un léger déplacement latéral pour éviter l'obus.

Something like hope begins, as if times can turn, the world change course. Maybe black-hearted boys in love with death won't blow themselves and us to smithereens, guns fall silent, the powerful cease slaughtering the weak, the rich will not gorge as the poor starve. Maybe good men will again come to power, truth speak, and words have meaning again. - New Moon

patterns. This sense of hierarchy and conformity was particularly strong during the militarist period of the 1930s. However, after Japan lost the war in 1945, the country became

The Unintended, Professor Estrella Espejo points out, pushes the envelope: within the spiral of war and loops of art is an unknown war wrapped in another, a ghost in its machine.

Love is the opposite of judgment. Love is acceptance. It is accepting our own judgments without acting on them and accepting other people's judgments and beliefs without reacting to them. The result of acceptance is peace. Therefore, the antidote to war is acceptance. If everyone would let everyone else have their beliefs, it would be possible for people to live in harmony.

We need to understand that the suffering people cause themselves and others comes from this primitive aspect of human nature and isn't a reflection of their true nature or value as a human being. The only thing that allows us to hurt or go to war with others is the belief that they are evil rather than that they, like us, are driven by a primitive aspect of themselves that perpetrates evil.

Against a heart inflamed with love, burning with unquenchable fire, a ruthless tyrant, cruelly armed, wages war, but all in vain. From every attack a victor, Love will always triumph. - Rosina

La experiencia me enseñó que, ciertamente, se puede ganar una guerra con cualquier clase de personas, pero no se puede construir un sistema justo, con valores éticos, si quienes se proponen hacerlo carecen de ellos o sacrifican esos mismos valores en el camino.

In Guerra, in che cosa differivano gli uomini in campo? Che differenza c'era, in fondo, tra due uomini armati di fucile, disposti a uccidersi in difesa di ragioni che entrambi consideravano giuste?

Desde entonces comenzó la guerra entre los hombres y yo.

What Hitler taught us–to an extent greater than anyone else in history, though we would become aware of it again in Vietnam–is that a licence to kill creates a momentum which defies moral sensibility and discernment and destroys the capacity of the individual to distinguish between good and evil or, and this is perhaps even worse, to act against a recognized wrong.

on the whole the US personnel soon felt considerably more sympathy for the Germans than for their victims.

I'm not happy to face it," he added, "but in the context of my life then, these workers' only significance was what they could produce towards our war effort; I didn't see or think of them as human beings, as individuals.

Dans un pays civilisé, une guerre civile éclaterait, affirmait à un certain moment le héros de la pièce, mais chez nous il n'y a pas de citoyens, il s'agira donc d'une guerre entre laquais. Ce n'est pas pire qu'une guerre civile, mais c'est un peu plus répugnant, plus misérable. " Nikolai Brandeis

Casus Belli. It means an incident that's used to justify a war...

Wars have always started over religion.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

most politically powerful right-wing families have an almost perfect record of advocating numerous wars while ensuring that their own sons and daughters do not risk their lives to fight in them.

Of the approximately 2,900 Jewish Nasielskers who remained in Poland, fewer than ten survived the war.

I don't know that I'm afraid of anything anymore. Once you experience war you can never be the same. You see the world differently.

All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.