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Quotes About War

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.
~ Isaac Asimov
[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
~ Isaac Asimov
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
~ Isaac Asimov
We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and in my dreams saw women. But my heart, stained with bloodshed, grated and brimmed over.
~ Unknown
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
~ Isabel Allende
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
~ Isaiah
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...
~ Ishmael Beah
Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.
~ Ishmael Beah
Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.
~ Ishmael Beah
Americans will not tolerate wars that can't be explained in simple terms of economics or the White man's destiny.
~ Ishmael Reed
th? là cu?i cùng, ph?i ch?ng chi?n tranh chính là cái cu?c chuy?n t? tay ng??i này sang tay ng??i kia các món ??, m?i lúc l?i méo mó thêm m?t chút?
~ Italo Calvino
You see... War... For years now I've been dealing as best I can with a thing that in itself is appalling; war... and all this for ideals which I shall never, perhaps, be able to explain fully to myself..." "I too," replied Cosimo, "have lived many years for ideals which I would never be able to explain to myself; but I do something entirely good; I live on trees.
~ Italo Calvino
Wci?? s? w ruchu te same przedmioty, przechodz?c z jednego obozu do innego, czy z jednego pu?ku do innego w tym samym obozie; czym?e zreszt? innym jest w ogóle wojna, je?li nie przechodzeniem z r?k do r?k dobytku coraz bardziej sponiewieranego?
~ Italo Calvino
Wojna to troch? rze?nia, a troch? rutyna i nie ma co czepia? si? zanadto szczegó?ów.
~ Italo Calvino
Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzi? t? wojn?, która w danej chwili si? toczy, i co najwy?ej pomy?le? jeszcze o nast?pnej.
~ Italo Calvino
e la guerra cos'è poi se non questo passarsi di mano in mano roba sempre più ammaccata?
~ Italo Calvino
I continue to gaze into the valley bottom of the memory. And my fear now is that as soon as a memory forms it immediately takes on the wrong light, mannered, sentimental as war and youth always are, becomes a piece of narrative written in the style of the time, which can't tell us how things really were but only how we thought we saw them, thought we said them. I don't know if I am destroying the past or saving it, the past hidden in that besieged village.
~ Italo Calvino
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
~ J. B. Priestley
Het schenden van grenzen heeft iets opwindends. Hij herinnerde zich de blik van jonge Duitse soldaten op journaalfilms.
~ Unknown
I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.
~ Unknown
Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.
~ J. G. Ballard
After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land.
~ J. G. Ballard