Quotes About War

You would think that with hunger and poverty and disease to do their part, mankind would not need to look for ways to die. But that's not the case. Hardly; hardly. There is always a new cruelty, a new war. And each time, they deal out death with an enthusiasm that staggers the mind.

More than anything, babus need to answer this—what is your dharma? To listen to your masters or to do the right thing? According to the Mahabharata, Krishna advised Arjuna to fight his own cousins. Since Arjuna was fighting a virtuous war, it became his dharma to fight and not give in to attachment. The babus need to sit down and reflect on their own new dharma.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

Hockey is figure skating in a war zone.

Most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior... Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. There is no mystery about disease, nor crime, nor war, nor the thousand and one things which plague us. Live simply and wisely.

Peace is the only adequate war memorial.

A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments t' unveil.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war and pillage...

...there hardly ever existed such a thing as a bad Peace — or a good War...

I join with you most cordially in rejoicing at the Return of Peace. I hope it will be lasting, & that Mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable Creatures, have Reason and Sense enough to settle their Differences without cutting Throats: For in my Opinion there never was a good War, or a bad Peace.

But enough of these petty Personalities. I quit them to rejoice with you in the Peace God has blest us with, and in the Prosperity it gives us a Prospect of... We are now Friends with England and with all Mankind. May we never see another War! for in my Opinion there never was a good War, or a bad Peace.

Es fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it, plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so, plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

Peace is the short interval when nations toil to pay the costs of past and future wars.

Courage in war is safer than cowardice.

War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable.

O! how many ghosts in a wound of war.

The salt of those ancient seas is in our blood, its lime is in our bones. Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II. I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad.