653 quotes found
“War is what happens when language fails.”
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and i...”
“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story see...”
“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade....”
“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm...”
“May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
“War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters...”
“War is sweet to those who have never fought.”
“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”
“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”
“Fire's tears were real now, and there was no helping them, for there was no time. Everything was moving too fast. She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her fac...”
“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
