10,941 Quotes About War

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and much else besides.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

If I’m going to wage battle with demons both on the street and in my own head, I’m going to do it with all of myself, and not weighed down by borrowed clothes and secondhand memories.

Life can be very fragile, the life of people and the life of cities.

War is the enemy of both men and women, it kills men’s pride and shatters women’s dignity.

Good and evil are not compatible. The wars we see in the world are a devastating reflection of the wars within most people.