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Quotes About War

Love is like war, except without all the blood and death and stuff
~ Unknown
He couldn't help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people the world over hate and fear us, would have been better spent on public education and libraries. It's hard to imagine that history won't prove him right, if it hasn't already.
~ Mark Vonnegut
We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.
~ Mark Waid
We are Alderaan. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important
~ Mark Waid
Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.
~ Marlon James
Sometimes war stop because you forget why you fight, sometimes you tired of warring, sometimes people who dead come back to you in you sleep and you can't remember them name, and sometimes you come to see that who you supposed to fight not even your enemy
~ Marlon James
Luis Hernán Rodrigo de las Casas, but everybody calls me Doctor Love. —Why? —Because counter-revolution is an act of love, hermano, not war. I'm here to teach you things.
~ Marlon James
Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.
~ Marlon James
anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's
~ Marlon James
That's the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.
~ Marlon James
This is war, despite what Drake or the Queen prefers to call it, and I want you safe, Isabeau. I want you home in England, safe.
~ Unknown
If you want to use force to protect your family, guard yourself from attack, fight against wrongdoing, prevent crime, and engage in a so-called "good war," you have been co-opted by the siren song of violence.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
~ Marshall McLuhan
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
~ Martha Gellhorn
War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
~ Martha Gellhorn
No wars, in the war-logged record of our species, have been terminal. Until now, when we know that nuclear war would be the death of our planet. It is beyond belief that any governments–those brief political figures–arrogate to themselves the right to stop history, at their discretion.
~ Martha Gellhorn
People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out.
~ Martha Gellhorn
If there is a war, then all of the things most of us do won't matter any more. I have a feeling that one has to work all day and all night and live too, and swim and get the sun one's hair and laugh and love as many people as one can find around and do this all terribly fast, because the time getting shorter and shorter every day.
~ Martha Gellhorn
It is amazing that the refugees stay sane. First the bombs, perhaps the "battle" around them, their casualties, their naked helplessness; then the flight, leaving behind everything they have worked for all their lives; then the semi-starvation and ugly hardship of the camps or the slums; and as a final cruelty, the killing diseases which only strike at them.
~ Martha Gellhorn
What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?
~ Martha Gellhorn
The fear syndrome [a species of propaganda], by exaggerating Vietcong power for destruction, misplaces the real pain of the real war, and is immensely dangerous. It leads to hysteria, to hawk-demands for a bigger war; it pushes us nearer and nearer to World War Three. The fear syndrome in no way serves the American cause; it can only jeopardize more American lives, with the ultimate risk of jeopardizing all life.
~ Martha Gellhorn
Ironically, Dr. Cameron was a member of the Nuremberg tribunal that heard the case against Nazi war criminals
~ Unknown
Modern conflict is as much about conditioning public opinion as any other strategy in the war against terror.
~ Unknown