Quotes About War

World gone money mad. The pinch of war gone, people must spend. Buy and forget. Spend and solace. Silks for sorrows. Jewels to bring back joy.

The Republicans abandoned the pretext of democracy to fight a war for power long ago.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

Deutschland Kaput! Kein Reich, Kein Volk, Kein Führer! Die Juden Kommen!" Trucks veered out of line to smash into men bicycling on the other side of the road. At night, soldiers looking for revenge sneaked into villages, assaulting women, burning houses.

The Costs of War Project at Brown University reports that from 9/11 through 2018, the United States waged war or maintained a military presence in seventy-six nations. That's 39 percent of the world's countries.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

He found himself smiling and talking politely to people who desired to show their respect and admiration for his uniform-instead of ignoring them and turning away. His sense of separation from and annoyance with these men and women who talked so glibly of war and who had not the faintest notion of what war was ebbed away; and he began to accept the fact that to chatter nonsense with neither knowledge nor perception was the ordinary manner of mankind.

Politicians were beginning to realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one can do almost as well by creating a minor replica at home

Adolf introduces Fascism to Germany, spreads war throughout Europe, murders millions in concentration camps—but he's a strict vegetarian and loves his dog. Tossing in a touching scene with his German shepherd Blondie and a dish of lentils won't make Hitler's character 'balanced.' Hitler's character isn't balanced.

It is a subject that is taboo unless there is some extraordinary social crisis—such as war—involving the mobilization of all the national resources of the common life to meet it. There is a conspiracy of silence about hatred, its function and its meaning.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

They'll say we're disturbing the peace,but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.