10,941 Quotes About War

I have perceived much beautyIn the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight;Heard music in the silentness of duty;Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.Nevertheless, except you shareWith them in hell the sorrowful dark of hell,Whose world is but the trembling of a flare,And heaven but as the highway for a shell,You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears: You are not worth their merriment.

¿De qué serviría presentar objeciones? Un huracán es un acto de Dios. Quizá la guerra también lo sea... todavía no lo sé. Por ahora mi opinión es que la guerra es un acto de los hombres. No me gusta. La odio con todas mis fuerzas. Pero cuando su furia me arrastra, no veo que pueda hacer nada... excepto desear que pueda salir con vida de ella, y te aseguro que es lo que estoy esperando.

Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom.

Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.

...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven...

There are two kinds of warriors:those on the battlefield,and those in the boardroom;both are out to win.But the age of King Alexander has gone,and the age of Bill Gates has come.

Business is warfare; don't get into it if you are afraid to draw blood.