No War Quotes

We were all pawns easily discarded at the whims of monsters, some of whom were younger than me.

That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.

A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses.

It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.

Will you stay in Germany?''No. Somewhere different.''Like where?''Somewhere there was no war. Ireland maybe.

Discord on one level is harmony on another

Victory stands on the back of sacrifice.

Victory stands on the back of sacrifice

Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy.

Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change.

I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise.

This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

And I looked, ' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book, ' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.

War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said.

Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.

Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die.

We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

hit with your fist, not with your finger spread

Every time someone tries to prevent a war from beginning...people get killed.

God be with you.''Thanks, but I think, in battle, I prefer Satan’s company.

Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there

They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

We didn’t believe in tomorrow. We we couldn’t forget what had happened yesterday.

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

I’m not afraid of anything and I will not fight.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

It's the young who will lead us to the future."Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life...

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing