10,941 Quotes About War

Refusing to acknowledge the historical trauma of those around us is a cultural tradition many of us have been handed down, generation to generation forming our foundation of erasing wrongs so we don't have to right them. But we can change these traditions and narratives. The world can change, because we can change. I have so much hope for you. I have so much hope for me.

The amount of violence against another human being we're willing to accept is a litmus test for our own freedom.

To prevent bloodshed on earth is the responsibility of every single human.

Love thy family, love thy friends, and, most of all, love thy enemies. War brings an end to life, but love brings an end to war.

I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war... War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming. Coming like a mysterious adventurer. I used to be an adventurer until I took an arrow to the knee. A knee that will not bend, like Leonidas at Thermopylae.

I don’t want my kids to hold an anemic love in their hands, to feel lost or victimized in a big, scary world. I want them to experience their power that resides in their little bodies and expresses itself in quiet, small words to defy hate and violence.

I had no control over what the Iraq War would ask of me; the only thing I could decide was how I would show up in it. What I would do. What I wouldn't do. In that decision I found what was worth dying for and what was worth living for- love.

Waging peace requires that we have the courage to face what's broken first- in ourselves-and then in the system affecting those around us and uncover who has been harmed and how we are connected to them.

Coming home from War as a peacemaker created a battlefield I wasn't prepared for.