Quotes About War

vaporised thousands of people in the centre of Hiroshima, leaving their shadows scorched into the walls behind them

It reveals both the failures and the huge successes of the navy at the end of a brutal and brutalising war.

Between 1000 C.E. and 1945, the longest period of uninterrupted peace in Europe was a fifty-one-year stretch between the Battle of Waterloo and the Austro-Prussian War. That tranquil period came amid the industrial revolution, as millions moved from farm to city. Was it harder, for a while, to find soldiers? Or did people feel too busy to fight?

Read again or hear a great actor speak aloud Lincoln's Gettysburg Address[141] – only this time envision he's talking to you, right now. No squinting. No adjustments or allowances for time or context. Simply talking exactly to and about us, right now. It's shockingly pertinent. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

In 1983, Michael W. Doyle commented on the common observation that democracies almost never wage war on one another. Understanding the reasons for this phenomenon may be crucial to our hopes for preventing devastating conflict in the next generation. Which attributes of democracy foster this essential trait of mutual nonaggression?

Yes, the Large Birds o' Prey They will carry us away, And you'll never see your soldiers any more!  —Rudyard Kipling

I've seen hopeless wars won before. If you give in to despair before you begin, you'll have no chance at all.

Le guerre sono belle, ma tendono a interferire con faccende più importanti.

He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

To be a soldier in combat was to fall in love constantly

I was a normal guy who got sent to Iraq and became crazy, so they sent me back to America to become sane, and now it's America that's driving me crazy.

I start thinking about what happened and then I start thinking about why I'm still here. It's pointless. They say on TV that the soldiers want to be there? I can't speak for every soldier, but I think if people went around and made a list of names of who fucking thinks we should actually be here and who wants to be here, ain't nobody that wants to be here, because there's no point. What are we getting out of fucking being here? Nothing.

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

His parents' pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war

junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

Of course, in men's sports no one ever talks about beauty, or grace, or the body. Men may profess their "love" of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive stats and technical analysis, tribal and/or nationalist fervor, uniforms, mass noise, banners, chest-thumping, face-painting, etc.

La belleza no es la meta de los deportes de competición y, sin embargo, los deportes de élite son un vehículo perfecto para la expresión de la belleza humana. La relación que guardan ambas cosas entre sí viene a ser un poco como la que hay entre la valentía y la guerra.

La belleza no es la meta de los deportes de competición y, sin embargo, los deportes de élite son un vehículo perfecto para la expresión de la belleza humana. La relación que guardan ambas cosas entre sí viene a ser un poco como la que hay entre la valentía y la guerra».

Qué vamos a hacer? - parece que exclamó Keitel- - ¡Hagan la paz, imbéciles! -le replicó Rundsted-. ¿Qué otra cosa pueden hacer?

Dreadful doubt and anguish - prayers and fears and griefs unspeakable - followed the regiment. It was the women's tribute to the war. It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women.

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon¬strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war.

Y en una sociedad que se niega a ver a los combatientes como iguales; donde se niega que haya guerra, donde unos mueren asesinados y otros mueren dados de baja, donde los soldados pobres son sacrificados como patriotas y los rebeldes pobres son sacrificados como monstruos, no hay manera de exigirles a los enemigos que se comporten como héroes homéricos.

Él era una mezcla de príncipe y bandido que se creía ungido para ser el amo del mundo, que fue oscureciendo su alma en guerras salvajes, resbalando a la infamia casi sin darse cuenta, pero que tenía en su corazón suficiente valor y tal vez demasiada grandeza para resignarse a ser un canalla.

For several months after 9/11, people heard it wherever they went, and then a cynicism seemed to take hold with some who mocked it and said it should be changed because it was too warlike or just expressed hatred of the country in general and turned their backs on any patriotic display.