10,941 Quotes About War

I killed him because I am Turkish and he was Greek. But when I looked at his face, as he looked up at me blindly, I couldn't see what separated us.

Nghĩa vụ của một con người trước Trời Đất là sống chứ không phải là hy sinh nó, là nếm trải sự đời một cách đủ ngành ngọn chứ không phải là chối bỏ… Không phải là ta khuyên con trọng mạng sống hơn cả nhưng mong con hãy cảnh giác với tất cả những sự thúc giục con người lấy cái chết để chứng tỏ một cái gì đấy.

Stay alert. Anything can happen in a war, but it’s less likely to happen to the man who keeps his eyes open.

Historical memory is hijacked by those who carry out war. They seek, when the memory challenges the myth, to obliterate or hide the evidence that exposes the myth as a life. The destruction is pervasive, aided by an establishment, including the media, which apes the slogans and euphemisms parroted by the powerful. Because nearly everyone in wartime is complicit, it is difficult for societies to confront their own culpability and the life that led to it.

Often a weak enemy, mindful of his incapacity to reason his way to a truce, starts off by giving a putative warning; and then, without waiting for a white flag, lights the canon. In this manner–and in his heart–he feels much righteous for having carried out things in the most honourable way.

It's a temporary measure. We'll leave home till things calm down in the capital," he said. He didn't foresee the possibility that never coming back would become a very real option.

She didn't want to see her house disappear before her eyes but wanted to remember it as it had always been, tidy, clean and smelling of the people who had lived in it and passed through it.

It is not the first time that Belgium has had to undergo a dangerous ordeal. But never has the situation been more serious than today! … Freedom, honor, the very existence of the fatherland is at stake.

He slicked back his shock of grey hair.'We weren’t supposed to meet formally until the foretold ‘event,’ and I wasn’t even certain I’d be President at that time,' he said as he reached out to shake my hand.'Your entire election platform was based on extinction of the Red Endlai during the Great War. You know my role. You always planned on meeting me,' I said, ignoring his hand.