653 quotes found
“A war doesnt merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty ...”
“Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.”
“Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.”
“The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, becau...”
“Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.”
“Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3”
“He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.”
“Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illus...”
“They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, Shit, its raining!”
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let t...”
“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west sl...”
“I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities de...”
“The things men did or felt they had to do.”
“They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to lose.”
“What is war?' I asked.Oh, it's a messy, stupid business,' he said, 'Two sides wave flags and beat drums and shoot one another dead. It always begins this way, making speeches, talking about rights,...”
“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a liberal state is at war with a totalitarian state, then the war is jus...”
“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.”
“He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board ...”
“In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Ke...”
“Are we entirely ready, sir?" said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means "We are not entirely ready, sir.""We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tac...”
