10,941 Quotes About War

Revenge and bring out the best and the worst in a man.

Acts of brutality committed by the ruling elite and systematic oppression of the weak stain every era of civilization. Ethnic wars and religious cleansing still exist in the twenty-first century. Just as insidious as state sponsored murder is the escalating economic expansion that destroys the habitat and displaces indigenous tribes’ way of life under the false moniker of economic and social progress.

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms.

This terrible legacy of colonization and genocide and inherited trauma has devalued us even to ourselves, destroyed our communities. Sometimes I think beyond saving . . .

Because evil exist, some warfare is inevitable and a nation must be galvanized into mustering arms to protect civil liberties.

We respond to the strut of warfare, this elixir of life harkens back to our primeval days: we harbor a deep-seated need to kill and conquer in order to stay and feel alive

All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty. Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.

Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.