10,941 Quotes About War

Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered

Unchecked tongue, temper and temptation compels the use of musket, machine gun and missile.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)

Don't fight over dead Kings and Queens. The Kings never fought for you.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.