10,941 Quotes About War

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.

So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war’s true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war — which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell — seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

The massive heart wrenching barbaric violations and battles among the international states or even the Big Powers, megalomania ,‘ folie de grandeur’,and even the UN Peace keeping forces lead us only to understand of the meager contribution to the subject of IHL

Колко тежки бяха условията, при които израсна нашето поколение! Без бащи, които гинеха по фронта,обути в налъми, въшливи и окъсани, с майки, чиито погледи горяха от мъка и от преумора - жени, изсушени от недояждане и от плач, които не знаеха за какво да се грижат по-напред: за нашето изхранване или за възпитанието ни. Почти всички бяхме станали гамени, тъй като растяхме на улицата, между лагерите на пленниците, в глада, хаоса и корупцията на тая безсмислена война.

Sometimes we are just the collateral damage in someone else's war against themselves.

When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.

Now. 1973. Exactly." He tipped back in his chair, his arms folded across his chest. "So much changed in the sixties, the war, the rights of women, civil rights, the vote, protest against the war. On and on. I was getting my Ph.D. in Chicago and you were in college but that time was upheaval with a purpose. Now we've drawn back into our shells, wondering what we have done and what do we believe.? And is there any purpose to our lives?

I slowly dug a stand-up foxhole up to my neck using my helmet. I don’t think any of us slept that night. It was the first time in my tour when I wasn’t sure I would make it. I’m not ashamed to say I did a lot of thinking about home and a lot of praying to the man upstairs.