No War Quotes

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.

War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...

Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

It is love and reason, ' I said, 'fleeing from all the madness of war.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, ‘Shit, it’s raining!

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back, " he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.

Women shouldn't be in combat, " said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

War is just demographics in a hurry.

Right, " said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

When you are dealing with an invisible enemy, use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait.

Tracer lighting up the sky.It's another families' turn to die.A child afraid to even cry out says, He has been here.And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore.Only sadness.

...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

Bumblestripe: “I think we showed them.”Hazeltail: “Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted.

Destruction is a man's will, Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will, Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :)

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.

Panic bells, it's red alertThere's something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No.

...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn’t a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.