10,941 Quotes About War

The war began in 1972. That was the year I awoke to a profound truth: no one on this earth is indispensable, except the enemy. ¶ Without an enemy, human beings are poor things indeed. Their lives are ordeals, crushed between insignificance and boredom. ¶ The enemy is the Savior. His mere existence is enough to revitalize humanity. Thanks to the enemy, that unfortunate accident called life becomes epic.

If there was a group of men, one of them sipped his chai and told his story, and when he got to a point where he couldn’t continue, the point in the story I most wanted to hear, someone elsetook a sip of his chai and began his own story, and so on and so forth, until everyone was given a say and not a single story was actually finished.

I felt bad for them and smiled.

Nous venons tous deux de la même terre, de la même langue, de la même histoire, et chaque terre, chaque langue, chaque histoire est responsable de son peuple, et chaque peuple est responsable de ses traîtres et de ses héros.Responsable de ses bourreaux et de ses victimes, responsable de ses victoires et de ses défaites. En ce sens, je suis, moi, responsible de vous et vous, responsable de moi.

She had a weapon now. She wasn't defenseless against him. She'd never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.

I wish I could escape my mind, that I could be free of this world and everything I have seen in the last few years. And the children who have survived - what will become of them? How will they be able to live in this world?

Coffee, ever since it became impossible to buy it in Germany, has assumed a weird importance in one's life.

Tonight, more than any other night, I want to feel alive.

We broadcast from coast to coast every utterance of Hitler, but the German people are not permitted to know a word of what Roosevelt speaks.