10,941 Quotes About War

If sleep is about closing eyes and losing consciousness of mind, then all wars happened in sound sleep.

[Standard social science approaches to analyzing conflict] too often miss the unintended consequences of well-intentioned acts. Dietrich Dorner is a German psychologist who studies leadership and decision making in complex environments. He has suggested that there is more harm done in today's world by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm. Remarkably, this may well be true.

War begets corrosive sense of revenge which never let it end.

This was the closest anybody in Iraq came to finding WMDs. Even though it was obvious to me and my staff that there wasno way the vans could have produced biological weapons, a monthafter we got the photos, the CIA published a twenty-eight-pagepamphlet insisting that was what they were for. …I was bewildered - Colin Powell

War is the name of SIGH

We who have seen war will never stop seeing it.

We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young

Over a hundred years ago, we learned in a stupid little place that used to be called Vietnam that wars are absolutely useless for trying to change people. Who the fuck ever thought you could go to war to change people, as opposed to just obliterating them? Dumb as fuck. The only good think about wars is starting them. Because you sure as fuck can't win 'em anymore.

We'd been through something our parents hadn't. The war made us older than our parents. And when you're older than your parents, what are you going to do? Who's going to show you how to live?