10,941 Quotes About War



  • Author Vasily Grossman
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    Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves.

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  • Author James Madison
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    Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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  • Author Cecil Lewis
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    The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow..

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  • Author Lois McMaster Bujold
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    Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.

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  • Author David Gemmell
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    War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.

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