10,941 Quotes About War

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end up doing the plowing for those who kept their swords.

I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

Kad Rat pravi žurku, redosled gostiju uvek je isti...Prvo dođu Popovi...Pa Topovi...Pa Lopovi...Ostali se i ne pozivaju. Ostali se donose na poklon...

The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.

Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact?

Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it.

Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldiers might live the rest of their lives regretting a decision that they don’t even remember making; they might receive a medal for doing something that was over before they even knew they were doing it.