10,941 Quotes About War

If you must fight someday, allow me to advise you about one thing: do not fight in anger.

How do you explain a war?", he asks himself, "How can you try and make sense of something that doesn't make any sense?

War is full of clichés, because only clichés can match the drama of the moment.

In a political democracy, every soldier's death is a public event. Every soldier's death ought to provoke the hard question: Why did he die?

Tanks could not solve what was essentially a political problem. If the revolution in Afghanistan could only be sustained with Soviet bayonets, that was a route down which the Soviet Union should not go.

War is something a man should want to be late for.

It was perfectly clear that Afghanistan was not ripe for socialism: religion was a tremendous force, the peasants were almost completely illiterate, the economy was backward. Lenin had set out the necessary elements of a revolutionary situation. None were present in Afghanistan.

Arguments for war based on the principle of 'setting the world an example' are always dangerous. They can be used to justify quite disproportionate responses, as occurred in South-east Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. They tend to be selective: why for instance did Britain not use force in 1965 to uphold the concept of majority self-determination in Rhodesia?

There’s no way to hold back what must come and will forever mark both our persons and our futures. Our decisions and actions from now on will have a significant and definitive impact on our lives and on the future of Norghana.