10,941 Quotes About War

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

Total annihilation has a way of sharpening people's minds.

A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what he called himself, and no great effort was made to disentangle Christian names from surnames from nicknames.

Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN.

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?