10,941 Quotes About War

War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and of the two, war is a lot worse.

Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak'Marna laughed mirthlessly.'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors.

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.

Where was the fear? She searched herself as she listened: sometimes the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, rapid and snippy like the keys of two vast duelling type-writers battering out threats to each other on a paper sky.

Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him.

When we focus on material things above internal qualities, it usually leads to wars, such as World War 1 and 2

Wars arise because of the desire to acquire more material, external resources

Cause of war is the lack of internal virtues and interpersonal values