Quotes About War

My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don't know who my brother. In war I don't know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies inside the heart of each one of us when everything is taken away.

It was eight years since publication of The Riddle of the Sands, but people still read it. "Do you fear war too?

If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the superstitious Pagans were convinced that the crimes and the impiety of the Christians, who were spared by the excessive lenity of the government, had at length provoked the divine justice.

he forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in the defence of our country.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war;

In times of confusion, every active genius finds the place assigned him by nature: in a general state of war, military merit is the road to glory and to greatness.

They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. 

These overtures of peace, translated into the servile and flattering language of Asia, were transmitted to the camp of the Great King; who resolved to signify, by an ambassador, the terms which he was inclined to grant to the suppliant Romans.

Some portion of the Gothic treasures might be the gift of friendship, or the tribute of obedience; but the far greater part had been the fruits of war and rapine, the spoils of the empire, and perhaps of Rome.

Only the darkest of them, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–8), ever seemed in tune with a decade of civil disobedience and anti-imperialist guerrilla wars, although the series inevitably sided with a global military and Euro-cool consumerism.

But people don't fight each other in America.' Said Luke with feeling. 'What do you mean!' His father cried. 'They're always fighting in America. First they fought the English, and then they fought the Indians, and then they fought each other. They're worse than us.

Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.

I thought we were losing the habit of wars," Eunice said glumly, stooping to adjust one of the irrigation lines running into her plant beds. "We are, slowly." Chiku took a seat. "But it's still in our blood, like some fucking horrible disease we're still carrying around with us.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

I had survived a long war with the Mob and the government. I told myself I was not going to be defeated by a couple hack writers and a Mafia rat.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

I don't know [what weapons will be used in the Third World War]. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth — rocks!

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternative service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

The most serious blow suffered by the colonized is being removed from history and from the community. Colonization usurps any free role in either war or peace, every decision contributing to his destiny and that of the world, and all cultural and social responsibility.

wished he might carry it into the enemies' own country. But his god was lying helpless at his feet and making queer sounds of distress. The dog's place was here. The joy of battle must be foregone.

The clergyman had held field services in France when the shells were dropping all about his khaki congregation. Thus, the advent of a huge and muddily shaggy dog did not throw him off his mental balance in the mere reading of a marriage service.