10,941 Quotes About War

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

Starting a war is in our hands, it is easy. But ending a war, that is not in our hands and no one knows what will happen.

The wounds will take decades to heal, centuries to overcome the trauma.

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

Hmph. Even the animals deserted me.I’d have deserted me, too, a different inner voice inserted dryly. The way Ibanged around in here wanting to kill something—anything—if only it would bring Aislinn back to me. Fionn understood at a level beyond reckoning that if he ever laid eyes on Travis again, the Hunter would be dead before he saw what hit him.

One day Kashmir will make India self-destruct in the same way. You may have blinded all of us, every one of us, with your pellet guns by then. But you will still have eyes to see what you have done to us. You're not destroying us. You are constructing us. It's yourselves that you are destroying. Khuda Hafiz.

Srinagar hunches like a wild cat: lonely sentries, wretched in bunkers at the city’s bridges, far from their homes in the plains, licensed to kill . . . while the Jhelum flows under them, sometimes with a dismembered body. On Zero Bridge the jeeps rush by. The candles go out as travelers, unable to light up the velvet Void.What is the blesséd word? Mandelstam gives no clue. One day the Kashmiris will pronounce that word truly for the first time.