Quotes About War

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Only rice likes to be drowned. The war is the worst scream. (Seul aime être noyé le riz. - La guerre est le pire des cris.)

The crusaders fought war, and they won leprosy . (Les croisés firent la guerre, et ils gagnèrent la lèpre)

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

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath. Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war

[As U.S. forces joined the Allies:] Lafayette, we are here.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Whether or not it is true that climate change exacerbates other environmental problems, the rush to name a unitary cause of a complex problem should give us pause. The pattern is familiar. It is none other than war thinking, which also depends on identifying a unitary cause of a complex problem. That cause is called the enemy, and the solution is to defeat the enemy.

fighting the enemy is futile when you inhabit a system that has the endless generation of enemies built into it. That is a recipe for endless war.

reductionistic thinking pervades the entire political spectrum...When no proximate cause is obvious, we tend to feel uncomfortable, often to the extent of finding some reasonable candidate for "the cause" and going to war against that.

in the U.S. during the Second World War, victory gardens were responsible for 40 percent of all vegetables grown during that period: 9-10 million tons...This just goes to show how our notions of what is possible or realistic depend on cultural perceptions. Cultural perceptions change, must change, and are changing. If by realistic we mean keeping everything the same, then we are going to have to stop being so 'realistic.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required 'blood and sweat and tears

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

In many things I defer more to the authority of my grandfather whose political sagacity appears to have been the most striking characteristic of his life. He saw no cessation of war, still less much perfectibility while man is constituted as he has been known to be since the world began. And I think with him.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!