10,941 Quotes About War



  • Author Sebastian Junger
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    Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

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  • Author Derek Landy
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    I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

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  • Author John Fowles
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    The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

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  • Author Rebecca West
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    Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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  • Author Sebastian Junger
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    War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

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