10,941 Quotes About War

We pretend the monsoon has come early.In the distancebombsexplode like thunder,slashes lighten the sky,gunfirefalls like rain.Distant yet within ears, within eyes.Not that far away after all.

Nobody talks about it. It’s not that kind of war.” “What kind of war is it, then?” said Guet Imm. She looked like she wanted to hit Tet Sang. “A secret war? I’ve never heard of such a thing!” “Yes,” said Tet Sang. “Open death, open atrocity, open persecution. But a silent war. It’s safer to be silent in these times.

Bernard Rusell once said that war does not determine who is right. Only who is left.

Το να σκοτώνεις στο όνομα του Θεού ή στο όνομα του μέλλοντος είναι το ίδιο. Όταν η αιτία είναι κάποια ιδεολογία, η ενσυναίσθηση και η συμπόνεια εξαφανίζονται. Σκοτώνουμε ψυχρά, δίχως να επηρεάζεται η συνείδηση, σαν το αδικαιολόγητο έγκλημα ενός ψυχοπαθούς.

What we do next will determine not only what kind of war this is, but what every war will look like after. Launching a rocket without ever needing to put a soldier or a pilot in harm’s way? War is meant to have costs. At what point are we as bad as the Fjerdans?”“Maybe that’s what we need to be. This is a world where villains thrive.

Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a society. Few societies seem able to do this willingly.

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

When the guns fired in August 1914, did the faces of men and women show so plain in each other's eyes that romance was killed?

What is war? Most of it is time spent waiting, woven with bursts of intensity. Time seemed to slow and every second labored by, lacquered with anxiousness as the soldiers stood in a formation, surrounding one building that had been spared the chaos.