No War Quotes
The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.
I do have nightmares. So what? I wouldn’t trade places with any of the f**kers I killed. Am I afraid of Hell? No. I’ve been. It’s worse than advertised but not as bad as imagined. ~ Brandon Hull
We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.
I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!""Well, I am, " said Sal. "So can we go... please?
Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.
Sorrow has rushed over the world like the waters of the Deluge, and it will take time to recede. But already, there are small islands of - hope? Happiness? Something like them, at any rate.
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..
Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?
Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.
Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.
I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.
They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.
But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
... only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.
It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.
Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.
So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue
I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?
Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.
Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.
She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being
Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.
I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.
It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse
Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.
This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.
It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.
When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.
