Quotes About War

The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don't understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the United States have fled from wars—many of which this country has had a hand in.

Bang bang was the sound of memory's pistol firing into our heads, for we could not forget love, we could not forget war, we could not forget lovers, we could not forget enemies, we could not forget home, and we could not forget Saigon.

I could not help but feel moved by the plight of these poor people. Perhaps it was not correct, politically speaking, for me to feel sympathy for them, but my mother would have been one of them if she were alive. She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.

What if he's not a spy? We'll be killing the wrong man. Then it would be murder. Bon sipped his beer. First, he said, the General knows stuff we don't. Second, we're not killing. This is an assassination. Your guys did this all the time. Third, this is war. Innocent people get killed. It's only murder if you know they're innocent. Even so, that's a tragedy, not a crime.

Which was worse, my country reduced to a war or my country turned into cliché?

The Movie was just a sequel to our war and a prequel to the next one that America was destined to wage.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

These invaders came to conquer our land and now would never go home.

The war against the English was premised against a desire by the European settlers to break out of the Thirteen Colonies and conquer the entire continent; this was a war for colonization, not a war against colonialism.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war

As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.

Love and war do not follow the ordinary rules of life.

Science is the father of war and Nature is the mother of peace.

War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.

When Hitler launched Operation "Barbarossa," virtually all BT's were abandoned.

He says it while Churchill is rejoicing war will not come

Here is why:  The Brest "Peace" meant millions of Russian soldiers were needed no longer.

It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.

someone has sat down and programmed people to go out, let's say, and commit armed robberies, burglaries, assaults? Do you know of any such instances?" A. "Yes. In one sense, that is what we do when we program soldiers in a war…The Army uses a peer group technique and the patriotic ideals that are instilled in citizens of a particular country to bring about this pattern of behavior.

Fury provides arms.

To-day, it is no exaggeration to claim that out of the eleven countries smashed and overrun by Germany, half of them were destroyed, not by tanks, but by propaganda.

It is the masculine values that prevail… This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?