Quotes About War

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

War is not women's history.

Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.