10,941 Quotes About War

In modern global civilization, war is basically a symbolic war that requires a flexible mind, deep intuition, and strategic thinking. Having lost a symbolic war, no one can gain an advantage in active military operations.

Political policies determine how the human race confronts this crisis. War doesn’t have that ability. War has only one outcome. War is stupid, Ralph. It is the desecration of the human spirit, martyring yourself for someone else’s dream. It is for people who do not believe in themselves.

They declared war on us some 100,000 years ago. We are about to announce that we've finally noticed.

This is it everyone. Today is a good day to make the other guy die for his cause.

I saw things in that war that a man shouldn't ever have see. Things that make you forget we're human and not just a bunch of beasts crawling out of the sludge somewhere. And the damnedest part of it all is, I couldn't for the life of me remember what we were fighting for in the first place.

All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred young men. It kills off something in people that can never be brought back. And if people go through enough wars, all that's left is the brute,the creature that we --- you and I and otherslike us -- have brought up from the slime",he paused for a long moment; then he smiled slightly: "The scholar should not be asked to destroy what he has aimed his life to build.

Before my father's grave, I sit alone.Upon some sheets of grimy paper, I writeMy tale, the most dreaded of known tales, A tale whose grisly facts poured outAcross the plains of vast Arabia.