10,941 Quotes About War

When the war begins, talking is insanity , Just take your weapon and kill humanity!

I told you to make weapons, Taim. Show me just how deadly they are. Disperse the Shaido. Break them.

Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land.Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested.

An ultimately evil job. For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the penalty is, as you will know, to breed new Saurons, and slowly turn Men and Elves into Orcs. Not that in real life things are as clear cut as in a story, and we started out with a great many Orcs on our side. (letter 66)

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.

The sacrifice of victory occurs years before the war begins. Once the battle starts it is too late.

They did not understand that war, which trained courage and founded the cities of barbarous and ignorant men, brings to victor himself but ruin and misery, and is nothing but a horrible and stupid crime when nations are united together by common bonds of art, science, and trade.

Grand designs in war are a thing of vanity. Victory goes to the general that blunders the least.”– Theodosius the Unconquered, Tyrant of Helike