10,941 Quotes About War

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There are no heroesOnly those that accomplish incredible featsUnder incredible amounts of pressure

Wars may be started by the failings of humanityBut they are wonBy the craftOf the keen and intelligent minds that fight them

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Донецк. Вопрос: "Как прошел день?" больше не считается приличным.У нас теперь все измеряется часами. Иногда минутами.День — так длинно, так долго... Можно не успеть прожить.

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

(...) psychologist Wilhelm Reich theorized that the suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian government. Without the imposition of antisexual morality, he believed, people would be free from shame and would trust their own sense of right and wrong. They would be unlikely to march to war against their wishes, or to operate death camps. Perhaps if we were raised without shame and guilt about our desires, we might be freer people in more ways than simply the sexual.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.