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Quotes About War

There are no athiests in foxholes.
~ William Thomas Cummings
War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
You are the owner and controller of the most powerful engine with the potential to win all wars of life—it is your ever changing mind.
~ Debasish Mridha
Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love.
~ Katja Michael
I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Black hawk down.Black eagle up.
~ Cass van Krah
You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.
~ Joanne Hall, Rider
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
~ Joseph Heller
Men fight wars. Women win them.
~ Elizabeth I
I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.
~ Constance Markievicz
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
~ Lillian Wald
Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
~ William D. Leahy
Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.
~ Ilana Mercer
The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.
~ Andy Borowitz
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
~ Kathe Kollwitz
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.
~ Joseph Joffre
Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.
~ Paul Ryan
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.
~ Gary Paulsen
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
~ Virginia Woolf
Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.
~ Kevin Macdonald