10,941 Quotes About War
- Author Kristina McMorris
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It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.
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- Author Brandon Sanderson
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... you have to be very careful where you waste your energy. Some battles just aren’t worth fighting.
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- Author Howard Zinn
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American capitalism needed international rivalry - and periodic war - to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor, supplanting the genuine community of interest among to poor that showed itself in sporadic movements.
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- Author Caspar Vega
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There is something alluring about dying in a battle. I don't yearn for death. Suicide is the ultimate disgrace. Yet the image of going out in a blaze of glory, fighting for something truly good, truly worthwhile, something you truly believe in... The idea's splendor overwhelms me.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We sometimes spend a trillion on a fight over a hundred.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.
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- Author Simon Parkin
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War inevitably brings provocations to bravery, tests that allow no room for considered thought, forcing individuals to act on character and instinct.
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- Author S. P. Jordans
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But you can't see it, can you? This river of blood I sunk in and the massive pile of corpses beneath my feet! You probably can't. Your eyes can't possibly see such disarray.
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- Author Marie Rutkoski
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He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was upon him. Arin had been born in the year of the god of death, and he was finally glad of it. He surrendered himself to his god, who smiled and came close. Stories will get you killed, he murmured in Arin’s ear. Now, you just listen. Listen to me.
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