Quotes About War

Until 1930, almost all codebreaking for the U.S. government's planetary war against smuggling was handled by these two tired and perpetually overworked women, Elizebeth and her clerk

The British were afraid. They knew they didn't have the money, the people, or the weaponry to sustain a long fight against the Nazis. They needed America to join the war. Their survival as a nation depended on it.

During the Second World War, an American woman figured out how to sweep the globe of undercover Nazis.

She had conquered at least forty-eight different clandestine radio circuits and three Enigma machines to get these plaintexts. The pages found their way to the navy and to the army. To FBI headquarters in Washington and bureaus around the world. To Britain. There was no mistaking their origin. Each sheet said "CG Decryption" at the bottom, in black ink. These pieces of paper saved lives. They almost certainly stopped coups.

By any measure, Elizebeth was a great heroine of the Second World War. The British knew it. The navy knew it. The FBI knew it. But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.

the U.S. was the worst-governed country in the world," that Roosevelt wanted war "at the instigation of the Jews, who controlled industry and the press," and that England was "a paper tiger with its little fleet and meager air force.

The Falcon had taken him away from Tatooine decades ago—a shell-shocked farm boy hurled into the middle of a galactic civil war he'd wrongly assumed would never touch him, his step-parents, or his friends. He wondered what that Luke Skywalker would think of what he'd become.

Narratives were far easier to shape than battles.

Lufta nuk ka shumë rëndësi për një njeri. Një shqiptar se ka fare problem. Pyesni grekët.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won.

I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.

Kahramanlar, ancak öldüklerinde ya da öldürüldüklerinde kahraman olurlar. Gerçek kahramanlar savaÅŸta doÄŸarlar, savaÅŸta ölürler. YaÅŸayan kahraman yoktur, delikanl?. Bütün kahramanlar ölüdür.

Los hechos de guerra suenan pueriles en los tiempos de relativa paz, y que algo haya ocurrido no es suficiente para admitir su relato, no basta con que sea cierto para resultar plausible. La verdad se vuelve inverosímil a veces con el paso del tiempo; se aleja, y entonces parece fábula, o ya no más la verdad.

Yeah, how dare they try to kill you in the middle of a war? Don't they know you're busy trying to kill them? How rude!

Great Hyperspace War

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting.

When the Great War came he would wage it with the fury of the affronted. Neither Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin, who was to die in a dogfight over France, nor the old Bull Moose himself, who was to die in grief not long thereafter, would survive Wilson's abhorrence of war.

And why is Grant so solemn today upon our great achievement, except he knows this unmeaning inhuman planet will need our warring imprint to give it value, and that our civil war, the devastating manufacture of the bones of our sons, is but a war after a war, a war before a war.

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.