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Quotes About War

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the precious values!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wars can destroy everything but hope!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
~ Meir Kahane
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
~ Mel Brooks
But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.
~ Mel Gibson
Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?
~ Melina Marchetta
This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.
~ Melina Marchetta
Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.
~ Melina Marchetta
But say he forgets about me or meets someone else or pretends I don't exist. I look at her and then at Trini and Raffy. "Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake" Teresa looks hopeful. "It's not as if men haven't gone to war for dumber reasons" Trini adds.
~ Melina Marchetta
WWII plaque that resides on an island in the pacific: "When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.
~ Unknown
James Shannon delivered the convention's opening address, which set the tone for the two-day event. His remarks were nothing if not unequivocal. Any threat to the biblically sanctioned right to hold slaves, Shannon assured his audience, "is just cause of war between the separate states." Those who advocated restrictions on slavery he denounced as "liars, yelping curs, assassins, knaves, Negro thieves and horse thieves."14 After
~ Unknown
The Red Cross nurses came out to the train to give us coffee and doughnuts. Our officer, our captain, who was white, he said serve the Germans first. Our Red Cross nurses said, no, we'll serve our boys first.
~ Unknown
Seja que dia for, é bom voltar. Voltar, agora que temos paz... Sem desviar os olhos da penerira, Hanifa Assulua reclamou, em surdina. Eu falava da Paz? Qual Paz? - Talvez para eles, os homens - disse. - Porque nós, mulheres, todas as manhãs continuamos a despertar para uma antiga e infindável guerra.
~ Mia Couto
Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.
~ Mia Couto