No War Quotes
The War, ' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.
It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign
Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.
Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.
The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception
The Military don't die. They go to heaven to join god's army and prepare for armageddon.
It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.
If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneaththe loving hands of two heartbroken children.
We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.
I decided to start a war, father", I said, cheerfully, "it's so much more interesting than peace.
A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.
Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.
I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.
In love, in war, truth is rubber that can be pulled and stretched into an infinite number of shapes.
Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldiers might live the rest of their lives regretting a decision that they don’t even remember making
A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies.
The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government.
The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments
It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
There exists a line within every man, a line that frightens even us. When an enemy comes to our very doorstep to endanger wife and child, our Beast is unleashed. The Lionmage had gone feral.
On armageddon day, ' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.
So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.
Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.
To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.
The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.
Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.
I've survived revolution, war, and over a decade on this continent, " the Burgrave reflected. "But by all the ghosts of the hundred emperors, I think fatherhood will finally do me in.
War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.
On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.
Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now, " said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.
