10,941 Quotes About War

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)

I had him in my cab once.Who? Neville askedRupert Brooke. He was good, him. "There's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England".That would be the bit with my nose under it; just fucking drive, will you?

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.