10,941 Quotes About War

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself?

My heart was my brother. And I no longer believe in a world that says he was too weak to deserve life.

I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.

SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO LOSE A BATTLE,TO LEARN THE BEST WAYS TO WIN THE WAR.

There's a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.

And, they tell us, we at homeLive free from danger, they go out to battle: fools!I’d rather stand three times in the front line than bearOne child.

Dignitaries may sign treaties, but wars never end. Oil dries and bombs run out, but never a mother's tears.

When the war endsPerish enemies and friendsWhen all is said and all is doneEveryone has lostJust time has won

Grief is a kind of war, I think now. Loss is like a bullet. A person can only take so much.