10,941 Quotes About War

The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized corpses.

It was terrible to watch one of those things die. Eighteen tons, a hundred feet from wingtip to wingtip, ten men aboard, all fighting to get out. If she spun, the centrifugal force would pin them to the walls... You're trapped inside a metal box. You've got five miles to fall. You know it. [...] Sometimes you could hear them all the way.

What would a war give you? ........ but if indeed war should break out, then it would not be in our power to stop it, for such is the logic of war. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction.Reply to JFK October 26 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

Everyone stays in a silent war for its interests and goals, some with fun and some with the gun, in various contexts.

It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life.

I've made peace with myself.""Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.""Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

Humanity is and must remain unconditional in the face of political, financial and personal gain.

Shame on military glory, shame on armies, shame on the soldier's profession, which changes men, some into stupid victims, others into base executioners. Yes shame, that's true – but it's too true, it's true in eternity, but not yet for us.

Those of us who where there would not have survived without those of you who remained here. Because the man fights and the woman feeds, the man hates the enemy and the woman a thousand miles away softens his heart with herself and the children so that his heart won't turn to stone.