War Quotes

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir, All Men are

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace....They are continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches.

Eugene Debs

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

KaThe Kollwitz

For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

Christopher Paolini

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

F. Murray Abraham

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

L. Neil Smith

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oriana Fallaci

They say truth is the first causality of war.

Captain Price

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

Edith Pargeter

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

John le Carre

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Thom Yorke

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Lester B. Pearson

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal.

Leslie Charteris

I'm against all war.

Puff Daddy

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Sir Winston Churchill

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Adolf Hitler

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Wilfred Owen