No War Quotes

A young body, a young heart, and endless courage. That last part is the most important. Don’t let anyone tell you any differently. Why do you think we used to send so many kids your age off to war?

I am a Warrior of Virtue, Nenya, the Water Warrior. Ardan is safe at last. That is all that matters. That is all that will ever matter...

But war had a taming effect

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

Takin’ it to ISIS, man!” Blue Jacket thumped his chest twice, and I read the saying on his shirt: Turning ISIS into WASWAS.

Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life’s craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation

We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion.

The Kremlin has made a habit of accusing others of crimes of which it has been accused of itself [228]

She borrowed in harmony and paid back in war

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.

Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics.

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?

Nobody returned alive from the war.

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

Girls with poison necklacesto save themselves from torture.Just as women wear amuletswhich hold their rolled up fortunestranscribed on ola leaf.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

This arrogant, perfumed young noble, in his rustling silks and polished lamellar armour, knew nothing of the hardships of war.

I’m tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.

In her head is warAll the time just warI put her to bedI bring peace to the world

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

Imprisoned peace sets the war free

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.

What is life but an ongoing war?

How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.

Who was Hitler" demanded little Tracy"He was this bloke in World War Two" explained Ben.

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.

I'm not a hero but I can end the war

Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?

..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

Morality is decided by the victors

Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.

In war, love is a luxury. It comes at a high price... This brand of marriage, I guess, takes steady nerves.

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.