No War Quotes
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?
He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw
...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.
I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.
We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.
Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.
An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy
The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.
And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.
A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.
The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!
Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That's winning always.
If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses
The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.
Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, Such questions can turn me to ashes.
The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.
It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.
God does not care where you pray. He only cares what is in your heart.
What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?
In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.
No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.
War sounds romantic, heroic even, until everyone you know starts dying.
Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.
I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.
Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.
There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs
The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.