War Quotes - Page 59

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.

Erich Maria Remarque

War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle. For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they’ve been gutted by an axe. They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now, They take the wound, and when that’s still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water.If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron half helm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the small folk whose land they’re fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it’s just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize. They don’t know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they’re fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad in all steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world.And the man breaks.

George R.R. Martin

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

Charles Frazier

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

H. Havelock Ellis

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask."Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.

Suzanne Collins

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

George R.R. Martin

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Sebastian Faulks

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Seth Grahame-Smith

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Madeline Miller

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Winston S. Churchill

And if we burn, you burn with us.

Suzanne Collins

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Orson Scott Card

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Cormac McCarthy

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

Rudyard Kipling

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Sun Tzu

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

William Shakespeare

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

Kristina McMorris

War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

War is sweet to those who have never fought.

Jess Rothenberg

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

Ursula K Le Guin

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Sun Tzu

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Erich Maria Remarque

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Sun Tzu

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

George R.R. Martin

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Robert A. Heinlein

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Charles Frazier

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Sun Tzu

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Sun Tzu

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

Khaled Hosseini

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

Erich Maria Remarque

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Sun Tzu

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.""You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Sun Tzu

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everything is war. Me say war.That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation...Until the color of a man's skin is ofno more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Terry Pratchett

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

George S. Patton Jr.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

Joe Abercrombie

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Malcolm X

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.Was Rorschach.Does that answer your Questions, Doctor?

War is over ... If you want it.

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