10,941 Quotes About War

The overseas frontier—wars in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Haiti—acted as a prism, refracting the color line abroad back home. In each military occupation and prolonged counterinsurgency they fought, southerners could replay the dissonance of the Confederacy again and again. They could fight in the name of the loftiest ideals—liberty, valor, self-sacrifice, camaraderie—while putting down people of color.

War in the era of machines could not possibly breed virtues like chivalry, courage, honor or manliness ... It imposed upon men nothing but the experience of bare destruction together with the humiliation of being only small cogs in the majestic wheel of slaughter.

Beaucoup se sont réjouis d'aller au feu pour donner un sens à leur vie même si c'est pour la perdre.

And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Don’t forget to pray for yourself.We are at war. We are up against lot of spirits these days.Spirit or lies, deception, hypocrisy, seduction, lust, prostitution, anger, hate, fame, rape, depression, judgement, substance abuse, revenge, cheating, lashing, entitlement, resentment and spirit of disappointment.Ephesians 6:122 Corinthians 10:3-4

The biggest wars are the wars of thought.The Oldest Soldier

For a split second, I was about to do it.Drop bombs on innocent people.Kill innocent people.

I needed to go far, far away. I needed to see my mother. See her face, hear her voice. The image of her flooded my mind: her dark skin, her sweet voice, but her face was soon replaced by Ms. Han's Asian features, her harsh voice barking orders.

Wounded men were being dragged along the deck and down the hatchways to where the horrors of the cockpit awaited them. As Hornblower looked he saw a powder boy flung across the deck, dissolved into a red inhuman mass as a twenty-​four pounder ball hit him.“Ha-​h'm,” said Hornblower, but the sound was drowned in the roar of the quarterdeck carronade beside him.