10,941 Quotes About War

Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party.

— Ми програли війну. Цю війну ми програли. Нас не вистачило на чотири фронти...— Війну, може, й так, — сказала вона. Але не боротьбу. Боротьба не має кінця без осягнення мети.

You know what, BB? We’ve got dark spots on our souls. We have to live with that. War is not about doing what’s right. War’s about surviving.”Verner aka ‘Jens’in the novel 'The Informer' by Steen Langstrup

No one has proved to me that my husband isn’t still alive somewhere in Southeast Asia. So, as far as I’m concerned, if even one man is alive, we own him more than this – than presuming him dead for the sake of tidying paperwork.

Ne jau par savu godu ir jācīnās. No visām šai pasaulē iespējamajām darbībām karš ir tas, kurā goda ir vismazāk. Vienīgais gods ir cīnīties un mirt tikai tāpēc, lai karš beigtos un vairs nekad nebūtu vajadzības karot atkal. Gods ir saprast, kad jākaro, un prast apstāties, kad karošanai var darīt galu.

Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the overlapping shields, the helmets, the glint of axes and spears and swords, and you know you must go into the reach of those blades, into the place of death, and it takes time to summon the courage, to heat the blood, to let the madness overtake caution.

Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant?