10,941 Quotes About War
- Author Evan Meekins
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War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.
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- Author Simon Tolkien
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You can't win because of the guns," said Adam with a sigh. "Machine guns, mortars, field guns, howitzers: it doesn't matter how much courage soldiers have, how much will; flesh and blood can't pass through bullets and shells, or at least not in sufficient numbers to have any effect. The guns win in the end and they always will. Not us, not the Germans - the guns.
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- Author Henry V. O'Neil
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It’s important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who’ll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn’t think of anything better. -- unidentified soldier, eulogizing his dead buddy
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- Author Omar F. Hashimi
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Make your enemies bleed.
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- Author Justin Cronin
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Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitudes. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. We may have loved, but never well enough. We never truly knew ourselves. We forgot the world; now it has forgotten us.
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- Author Aleksandra Layland
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Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
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- Author Michael Ondaatje
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This history of mine,' Herodotus says, 'has from the beginning sought out the supplementary to the main argument.' What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history—how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love....
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- Author Peter V. Brett
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He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.
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- Author Fuyumi Ono
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The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.
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