War Quotes - Page 23

Love doesn’t rule the world. The lust for power and dominance over others is what drives men – always has, always will.

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denying that.’ Captain Chillingworth’s words emerged very slowly, as if they had been pulled up from a deep well of bitterness. ‘I am sure it will do a great deal of good for some of us. But I doubt I’ll be of that number, or that many Chinamen will. The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.

Amitav Ghosh

We come into this world through women: a woman who is spent, broken open, in awe. No wonder women have been worshiped ever since men first saw the crowning of a head, here, legs spread, a brushstroke of light. We are fire. We are water. We are earth. We are air. We are all things elemental. The world begins with "Yes,"Changing women: we begin again like the moon. We can no longer deny the destiny that is ours by becoming women who wait: waiting to love, waiting to speak, waiting to act. This is not patience, but pathology. We are sensual, sexual beings, intrinsically bound to both heaven and earth, our bodies a hologram. In our withholding of power, we abrogate power, and that creates war. The Australian poet Judith Wright says, "Our dream was the wrong dream, our strength was the wrong strength. Wounded, we cross the desert's emptiness and must be false to what would make us whole.

Terry Tempest Williams

Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic?Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified the failure of the planetary strategy of the United States, it would necessarily have completely disrupted its internal balance and the American political system.

Jean Baudrillard

No, war is never about killing the enemy. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

David Wong

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Noam Chomsky

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.

Aberjhani

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.

Richard H. Shultz Jr.

My mind knows what is right, but my flesh is at war against my spirit?

Deborah N. Kabwang

Set your peace freebefore your caged mind catchesyou again in another dream trapwhere you may loathe to be your own menace awaiting in hope of a war-less world !

Munia Khan

Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war—peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.

Clint Van Winkle

There's never peace in war....perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived

Will Leamon

The Crazy feeling builds and builds. It never stops, it never ends, there is no relief.

Brian Castner

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives, making resolutions. If I ever get out of this lot... They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh.

Ian McEwan

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

David Bellavia

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Alice Walker

On our way back to her house, I didn’t look at the city lights any longer. I looked into the sky and felt as if the moon was following us.When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, “In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion.” That night I wanted the sky to talk to me.

Ishmael Beah

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

Ishmael Beah

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

Ishmael Beah

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

Gabriel García Márquez

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

Gabriel García Márquez

I don’t recall ever seeing my mother as a human being. She would always be weeping and wailing in the corner of the kitchen like a dog tied up to be tormented. My father would assail her with a hail of insults, and when her endurance broke, she would whine aloud, ‘Why good Lord? Why? Take me and save me.’ Only then would my father stand up, take the cord out of his headdress, and whip her nonstop for half an hour, spitting at her throughout.

Hassan Blasim

He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't. He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.So he wasn't going to now.

Luke Taylor

I feel like so much has been left undone. There are friends I won't see before I leave, there are bills I still need to pay. I haven't written as much as I've wanted, and there are countless things I've said that I wish I could correct, but this is a process that will never end. When my grandmother died she left a library full of books she never finished reading. This is how I feel now.

Jason Christopher Hartley

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,

Ruta Sepetys

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.

Melissa Seligman

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.

Ruta Sepetys

The most valuable treasure God has entrusted a shepherd with, is his sheep. No sheep is perfect but if shepherd despises them or adopts a scornful outlook for them then he has already began his downward plunge into faith which if He does not repent instantly, may eventually find himself warring against God himself who is our Good Shepherd.

Santosh Thankachan

This is what the LORD requires of every man; to do justice, to love mercy and to humbly work with God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever there is peace, there is progress.

Amit Kalantri

Peace shouldn't be an option, it must be the objective, peace shouldn't be a possibility, it must be the purpose.

Amit Kalantri

Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.

Amit Kalantri

How dare you come into my home? And hurt my family? I ought to tear your throat out right here, right now!

S.R. Crawford

Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…

S.R. Crawford

We all know what’s coming. The winds are picking up, spiralling closer and bringing with it a great wave of destruction…none of us can hide…no matter which side you choose, you’ll be dragged into the line of fire and who’s to say, my friend, which of us will come out alive?

S.R. Crawford

I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear...

S.R. Crawford

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

Fuyumi Ono

The world isn’t big enough for all of us.

S.R. Crawford

You can never trust a Vampire, child.

S.R. Crawford

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Brian A. McBride

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

Parke Godwin

Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant?

Natalia Marx

Melisande lay in bed in the loft of her cottage in Graebrok Forest north of Odr. Wide awake and blinking in the dark, she listened to the mice above her head. Nearly a moon past, her swordsman had repaired a crack in the eaves before returning to the towers and yards of Merhafr, the great port on the Njorth Sea, where he served as a King’s Ranger. His name was Othin, taken from a god of wisdom, trickery and war. What such a one knew of carpentry, well, that was open to question. But he knew other things. Nice things.

F.T. McKinstry

Like the dark clouds above that promised rain but withheld it, her presence there was a lie. For in truth, this horrific slaughter had already damned the small race; their fate had already come and gone.

S.J. Pow

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

George R.R. Martin

Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest.

Jessica O'Toole

IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.

Abhysheq Shukla

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

Abhysheq Shukla

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

Abhysheq Shukla

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

Abhysheq Shukla

For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here

Abhysheq Shukla

MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

Abhysheq Shukla

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

Abhysheq Shukla

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

Abhysheq Shukla

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Abhysheq Shukla

As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS...

Abhysheq Shukla

YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.

Abhysheq Shukla

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

Abhysheq Shukla

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