10,941 Quotes About War

Treason is an easy word to speak. A traitor is one who fights and loses. Washington was a traitor to George III.

Don't think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it.

War summons the demons from angels.

You do not need to believe evil, only to use its methods. You will get accustomed to them, until eventually they are not your last choice, but your first. For awhile, you can justify it to yourself, and then eventually you will not bother. You have forgotten what you are fighting for; now winning is the only objective! And the more you win, the more you justify it, until the whole idea of right and wrong disappears and only winning matters.

There was always an excuse for why Kaladin needed the spear again, wasn't there? This was what he'd been afraid of. This was what made him tremble. The worry that he would never be able to put it down.

The planet dies. Crickets chirp. Crickets survive, for now, among the crashed ships and broken bodies on this crumbling plain. Silver moss devours steel, and violet flowers choke the dead guns. If the planet lasted long enough, the vines that sprout from the corpses' mouths would grow berries. It won't, and neither will they.

I want to help people, no matter what anyone else says. I want to help the less fortunate. I want to be a lawyer. Will you still be proud of me if I become a lawyer, like Atticus Finch? “Zack proudly displayed his Jewish Star necklace. For some strange reason, Zack’s mother began to cry.

Such is life in the legal arena—lawyers and clients may not count their chickens until all the appeals are hatched.

Raus did not look up at the faces. An officer learned not to look at the faces. It was easier if you thought of them as bodies, as tools, means to an end. But just what the end was Raus could no longer say.