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War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
— Heraclitus, Fragments
You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.
— Amit Kalantri
Some say God caught them even before they fell.
— Wilfred Owen, The Poems Of Wilfred Owen
For Achilles, the death of Patroclus pushed him into a fury, but it was not only grief that drove him. It was also a sense of shame and guilt because he had not been there to protect his friend. Sometimes men in combat feel this sort of survivor’s guilt even though, realistically, they could have done nothing to prevent their comrade’s death.
— Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
For many people, that war [WWII] is called the “good war” because it was fought against a regime guilty of unspeakable atrocities. But the Allies did not enter the war to save Jews from extermination. The United States entered the war after it was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor and, as a nation, we certainly did not do as much as we should have to save the Jewish population of Europe. The basic question is still with us: Is it right, justifiable, to intervene in a nation’s internal activities when those activities include genocide, ethnic cleansing, or some other demonstrable harm to a subset of its people?
— Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.
— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
— Heraclitus, Fragments
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
And in a nasty war, where's the best place to be? Apart from on the moon, o' course? No one?"Slowly, Jade raised a hand."Go on, then," said the sergeant."In the army, sarge," said the troll. "'cos..." She began to count on her fingers. "One, you got weapons an' armour an' dat. Two, you are surrounded by other armed men. Er... Many, youse gettin' paid and gettin' better grub than the people in Civilian Street. Er... Lots, if'n you gives up, you getting taken pris'ner and dere's rules about that like Not Kicking Pris'ners Inna Head and stuff, 'cos if you kick their pris'ners inna head they'll kick your pris'ners inna head so dat's, like, you're kickin' your own head, but dere's no rule say you can't kick enemy civilians inna head. There's other stuff too, but I ran outa numbers.
— Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
The predominant cancer metaphor is war. We fight cancer, usually valiantly. We attack tumors and try to annihilate them and bring out our arsenals to do that, and so on. It's us against cancer. This metaphor has come in for its share of criticism within the ethical, psychological and even oncological disciplines. A main concern is that when someone dies of cancer, the message that remains is that that person just hasn't fought hard enough, was not a brave enough soldier against the ultimate foe, did not really want to win.The cancer-is-war metaphor does not seem to allow space for the idea that in actual war, some soldiers die heroically for the larger good, no matter which side wins. War is death. In the cancer war, if you die, you've lost and cancer has won. The dead are responsible not just for getting cancer, but also for failing to defeat it.
— Alanna Mitchell, Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths
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— In the decision to use the bomb the base line had shifted down during the moral slide from the blockade to the area bombing of Germany and to the fire-bombing of Japan. Predictably one member of Stimson’s committee made the point that the ‘number of people that would be killed by the bomb would not be greater in general magnitude than the number already killed in fire raids’.
The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai
— Jonathan Glover
Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
We could unleash all this technology at once. You can imagine what would happen then. But that's not the interesting thing." "What is the interesting thing?" "The interesting thing is that we have a moral sense. It is on punched cards, perhaps the most advanced and sensitive moral sense the world has ever known." "Because it is on punched cards?" "It considers all considerations in endless and subtle detail," he said. "It even quibbles. With this great new moral tool, how can we go wrong? I confidently predict that, although we could employ all this splendid new weaponry I've been telling you about, we're not going to do it.
— Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
I have watched a lot of films... about war... but still I can't understand what's the purpose of war???Killing inocent people??About religion... so my god says that killing other people isn't acceptable... but your is acceptable???WTF
— Deyth Banger
Those who actually dropped the bombs were less responsible than the people who took the decisions higher up the chain of command. In modern technological war, psychological responses are poorly correlated with degrees of responsibility. In people further back up the chain, this casual distance reduces the psychological resistance they have to overcome.
— Jonathan Glover
Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.
— Duane Hewitt
A lot of blood,A lot of dead people,A lot of victims,A lot of useless battles,A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall...
— Deyth Banger
War is the most profitable business on earth
— Kenneth Eade, Beyond All Recognition
The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077 names, the names of young men who were robbed of life. Note that we often say that they gave their lives, but of course, this is not true; their lives were taken from them. It is not outrageous to consider the carving of their names and the false promise of “evermore” another act of violence.
— Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …
— Vladislav Tamarov, Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story
Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
For all these stars,nothing is new.They’ve seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too.They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood.They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud.They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed.They’ve seen the treesand the seas emptied.Yet, you won’t hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years,proclaims: 'I have lived!'Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,the families, the friends, none of it is new.All of it—even the me and you.
— Kamand Kojouri
One didn't understand, until one had seen a great many bodies, the unconscious effort that one must be making every minute simply to keep one's hands and face and clothes clean. The world's surfaces were so filthy that the living touched them only with the tips of their fingers and the soles of their shoes. How grubby it was to die, to give up making that effort.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.
— Patrick Ness, Snowscape
The most valuable real estate for a man is the woman's mind.Many bloody battles have been fought for her mind space!
— Sanjai Velayudhan, Dance of the Spirits: A Novel
Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.
— Salman Rushdie
Man constantly prayed to God for peace, but peace never happened, so he decided that his god must really want war because the other side was sinful. Man invented and extolled virtues which could only be exemplified under conditions of war, like heroism and gallantry and honor, and he gave himself laurel wreaths or booty or medals for such things, thus rewarding himself for behaving well while sinning. He did it when he was a primitive, and he went on with it after he thought he was civilized.
— Sheri S. Tepper, Raising the Stones
He is, however,” Amos continued, “keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel’s reactor.”Holden ran his fingers through his hair. “So not too generous, then.”“Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
There was less of him now. There was less of them all. Officers and men dragged themselves around in uniforms three sizes too big, new holes punched into every belt, every collar hanging loose. They were a garrison of skinny boys performing a play about soldiers.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
We will never achieve freedom - not until the very end - but the fight can be so beautiful.
— Kim Fielding, Guarded
For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki
My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
What do they be teaching the young these days? I declare, they think more on machines and formulas than they do on the true knowledge of the world. They blow things up, and call it progress. They kills one another by the million, and calls it civilization... But you takes a single life, just one, and that is murder most foul, and they will pin you for that, and lay it against you the rest of your life. It hardly seems fair.
— Paul Kearney, The Wolf in the Attic
The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under 21 years of age. The population continued to climb—and with it the youth percentage.In the 1980s the figure was 79.7 percent.In the 1990s, 82.4 percent.In the year 2000—critical mass.
— William F. Nolan, Logan's Run
A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.
— Jonathan Glover
Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.''I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.''Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?''Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.''Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.
— Anthony Liccione
A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you’ll ever see.
— Christian Cameron, The Ill-Made Knight
You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.
— Marya Mannes
No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider
— PureDragonWolf
to have great pain is to have certainty
—  to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.
— Steve Maraboli
What would yield the greater benefit to mankind: if I spent the afternoon taking stock in my dispensary, or if I went to the beach and took off my clothes and lay in my underpants absorbing the benign spring sun, watching the children frolic in the water, later buying an ice-cream from the kiosk on the parking lot, if the kiosk is still there? What did Noël ultimately achieve labouring at his desk to balance the bodies out against the bodies in? Would he not be better off taking a nap? Maybe the universal sum of happiness would be increased if we declared this afternoon a holiday and went down to the beach, commandant, doctor, chaplain, PT instructors, guards, dog-handlers all together with the six hard cases from the detention block, leaving behind the concussion case to look after things. Perhaps we might meet some girls. For what reason were we waging the war, after all, but to augment the sum of happiness in the universe? Or was I misremembering, was that another war I was thinking of?
— J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
— Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.
— Todd Stocker
"Fine! Fine! I'm listening...but it's not very interesting!...   "Oh, that's what you think! that's what you think! but nothing is very interesting, dear Professor Y! jot this down! take some notes!"   "What notes?"   "Just write!...that if it weren't for wars, alcohol, blood pressure and cancer, the people in our atheistic Europe would soon be bored to death of life!
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Conversations with Professor Y
From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.
— Alephonsion Deng
He was shivering like a Wicklow sheepdog in a snowy yard, though the weather was officially 'clement'.The first layer of clothing was his jacket, the second his shirt, the third his long-johns, the fourth his share of lice, the fifth his share of fear.
— Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
These men were born to drill and die.            Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,            Make plain to them the excellence of killing            And a field where a thousand corpses lie.
— Stephen Crane
I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin
— Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
One just voice is greater than an army.
— Fernando A. Torres
We may make contact with ambitious species on other planets or stars; soon thereafter there will be interplanetary war. Then, and only then, will we of this earth be one.
— will and Ariel Durant
I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on this earth may have the same opportunity to live beautifully- to live in purity without fear or hunger or hatred- as brothers, not as brutes tearing through these hideous swamps of ignorance and war. Men speak of a belief in God. I am beginning to understand what every Christ- and their skins have been every color- what every Christ has taught: That love of God is love of mankind. That no one can profess to love God while he hates the least of his fellows. Jesus, if He were on earth right now, would fight to free men from oppression and evil and war; and you who have made a pious mockery of his every commandment- you would kill Him.
— Kenneth Patchen
Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.
— Michael Hastings, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story
If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive and flying home. The music plays in my ears and I float further and further away from war. Fucking Baghdad.
— Michael Hastings, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story
My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.
— Marcus Luttrell
Danny Dietz died right there in my arms. I don't know how quickly hearts break, but that nearly broke mine... I had to leave him or else die out here with him. But I knew one thing was certain. I still had my rifle and I was not alone, and neither was Danny, a devout Roman Catholic. I left him with God.
— Marcus Luttrell
I later became more interested in equal rights for women in the work place because of what was happening at IBM. One of the women at Remington Rand had previously been a system service girl for IBM during the war. After a system was installed, a system service girl would go out and show the users how it worked. She was the liaison between the users and the computer company. She was married and had been fired to make room for a returning veteran. When the war ended, IBM rehired all of its former employees who had left to join the military, then fired all of the married women with jobs that could be filled by men.
— Jean Jennings Bartik
I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?'...It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inﬂicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
— Ludwig von Mises
A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages
—  he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems
Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.
— Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.
— Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue.
— Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.
— Clifford Cohen
Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
What was it like? Hell if I know. But next time someone asks.... I'll answer crooked, and I'll answer long. And when they get confused or angry, I'll smile. Finally, I'll think. Someone who understands.
— Matt Gallagher, Youngblood
humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity
— Mouloud Benzadi
War does one good—it teaches people geography.
— Will Durant, The Age of Faith
But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.
— Monica Hesse
I want to create, not kill.
— Susanne Dunlap, The Académie
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik
— Chris Hedges
To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost
— Dario Spini, War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia
Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.
— G.R. Gopinath
Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.
— Dario Spini, War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia
Most people spend their whole lives waging war—against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS
— Germaine Shames, Between Two Deserts
It is a joyous thing, war.  You love your comrade so much in war.  When you see that your quarrel is just, and your blood is fighting well, tears rise to your eyes. A great sweet feeling of loyalty and of pity fills your heart on seeing your friend so valiantly exposing his body.  And then your are prepared to go and live or die with him, and for love not to abandon him.  And out of that, there arises such a delectation, that he who has not experienced it is not fit to say what delight is.  Do you think that a man who does that fears death?  Not at all, for he feels so strengthened, so elated, that he does not know where he is.  Truly he is afraid of nothing.
— Jean de Bevil
War is a big word; it’s cruel, it’s hard, nobody wants that. Protecting yourself sounds much better. Putting up walls, shutting everyone out. And forgetting that those who you are so afraid of—they’re not all that different from you.
— C.M. Rayne, Dark Oracle
A life was a story, and a story was nothing more than a promise that something bad would happen. It was a promise that people would desire and want and ache and burn, but it was not a promise that they would find what they sought.
— Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.
— Clifford Cohen
Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.
— Clifford Cohen
A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.
— Aleksandra Layland
Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.
— Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God - or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.
— Marceline Loridan-Ivens, But You Did Not Come Back
The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan
— Tom Hanks
Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
— Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.
— Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.
— Aysha Taryam
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
— Steven Galloway
This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.
— E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros
What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.
— Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
When the war's over, I'll be kind.
— Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
Ultimately, the claim goes to the strongest, does it not? In the final sort of things, I mean. He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause. Surely as worldly as you are, you know well the histories of the world, Master Wingham. Surely you recognize that armies carrying banners are almost always thieves - until they win.
— R.A. Salvatore, Road of the Patriarch
War is easier than peace. The government elects to punish an enemy it perceives as weak because it is easier to send an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf than to attempt the harder task of making American society not so wretchedly defaced by its hungry children, its crowded prisons, and its corporate thieves....
— Lewis H. Lapham
He asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire: what is the best colour for a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray: and whether it should be long or short, narrow or wide, dirty or clean; with many more. Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long a continuance, especially if it be in things indifferent.
— Jonathan Swift
What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like the teak sleepers and steel rails and dog spikes.
— Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
— Jeannette Rankin
Thing about being free is, comes a point where you can't turn back, even if you wanted to....Even if you wanted to, they wouldn't take you. You've gone to far.
— Nicholas Hochstedler, War in October
It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it. They really connected with it.’‘Maybe it reminds them of school,’ she suggests. ‘Didn’t someone describe the trenches as ninety-nine per cent boredom and one per cent terror?’‘I don’t know about boredom. God, the chaos of it, the brutality. And it’s so vivid. I’d definitely be interested in reading his poetry, if only to see how he can go from describing, you know, people getting their guts blown out, to writing about love.’‘Maybe it’s not that much of a leap,’ she says.
— Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
After all, plans are one thing; then the battle happens.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
You study the Path of Peace. I practice the Art of War. There are some congruities between these different approaches but there are many more differences, and they are significant. The Art of War is carried out on the battlefield with deadly weaponry and sometimes, more importantly, in other places and in other ways that you would find distasteful. If I speak little about my plans it's because the Art of War teaches that it is the business of a general to ensure secrecy. You might want to mollify or change my tactics or strategies to fit the morals of your peacetime world and I'd be shackled and hampered in seeing the victory won as it should be, as quickly as possible, with as little fighting as possible, and at the lowest cost possible. You cannot bear the consequences of battle and you don't know the resources required. I do.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
What I am trying to tell you,” Trinka said softly, looking back at him, “is that there are good ways to live, and bad ones. This is not a matter of opinion; it is objective truth. The Empire fights the Wilders because we need their land; that’s true. But there are other reasons. We fight them because they are unworthy. They are not fit to share this world – this divine gift – with folk who do not murder children. With people who do not rape women, or make slaves of the weak. The Wilders are undeserving of the gift of life, of divine choice. They are not fit to be called Children of Bræa. Their way of life is a blight upon the earth. They may look like men, but they live, and behave, like beasts.“If they were able to learn to live like civilized folk,” she sighed, “then we would make it our business to teach them; indeed, I would account it our duty to bring them into the light. We have tried. It has been more than a century since we first began settling the frontiers beyond the mountains, and in the three-score years since Duncala, we have tried many times to bring them the gift of civilization. But if they will not learn to act like civilized men, then civilized men are not obliged to tolerate them. The whole of Bræa’s creation, her divine intent, and her gift of choice to all of us – the gift of choice that grants us the possibility, and therefore the obligation, of bettering ourselves! – cries out against tolerating what by any reasoned definition is utter, bestial depravity. “We are Bræa’s heirs, the inheritors of her divine design. We are not obliged to endure depravity,” she said gravely. “We are obliged to redeem it, if we can; but if we cannot, then our obligation – to ourselves, our posterity, and the Holy Mother’s design – is to end it.” She cocked her head. “In this wise, it might help to think of the Wilders as little different from the hordes of Bardan, whose legacy of death and devastation ended the ancient world, and plunged all into darkness for twice a thousand years.” Her fist clenched involuntarily. “We will not suffer the darkness again, Esuric Mason. My brothers...my former comrades, I mean...they will not allow it.” She looked down at her hands. For a wonder, they were steady. “I will not allow it,” she whispered.- The Wizard's Eye (Hallow's Heart, Book II; Forthcoming)
— D. Alexander Neill
Among the Kimbrii the greatest shame a person can bring to himself or his clan is to start a war, but the second greatest is to submit to tyranny or injustice without a fight.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
What is peace without war?
— K. Weikel, The One-Hundred: Part 2 - The Beneath
Sometimes, Freud argued, people need a history enema.
— Tom Keneally, The Daughters of Mars
It's war that makes generals
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Soldiers are not trained for retire
— Bimo Satriyo
And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantment of visions that crowd in on each other, just how fragile a handhold, how tenuous a boundary separates us from darkness - we are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and are often all but extinguished. Then the muted sounds of battle surrounds us, and we creep into ourselves and stare wide-eyed into the night.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. ... War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way...War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god...Men of god and men of war have strange affinities.
— Cormac McCarthy
It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.
— John Hersey
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness, holding in what would otherwise be an unrestrained outburst of endless scream.s. We have no flesh, no muscle now
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.--Dienekes at Thermopylae
— Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.
— Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
It is something that cannot be explained or even understood until you’ve lived it; a man can’t know or fully appreciate his life until he’s been close enough to taste the end of it, and the bonds forged in battle are some of the strongest a man could ever have. We are brothers, the men of ODA 022, and though we didn’t have the same blood running through our veins, we had all shed the blood of others together, and knew that none of us would hesitate to step in the way of fate and take a round or jump on a grenade to save one another.
— Robert Patrick Lewis, Love Me When I'm Gone: The true story of life, love and loss for a Green Beret in post-9/11 war
Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.
— Terry Kay
Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung that earth that was lately shaken at his terror. I have waded in red blood to the knee; and in this hour, in my old years, the world is become for me a vision only and a mock-show.
— E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros
The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.
— Duop Chak Wuol
our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler...
— Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory! Thus the LORD was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to give us their Land for an Inheritance: Who remembred us in our low Estate, and redeemed us out of our Enemies Hands: Let us therefore praise the LORD for his Goodness and his wonderful Works to the Children of Men!
— John     Mason, A Brief History of the Pequot War
But GOD was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven: Thus were the Stout Hearted spoiled, having slept their last Sleep, and none of their Men could find their Hands: Thus did the LORD judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies!
— John     Mason, A Brief History of the Pequot War
Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.
— Martin  Bell, Through Gates of Fire: A Journey into World Disorder
I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.
— Jabber Douaihy
But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved.
— Kate Seredy
The holy war is warfare.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...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.
— Vera Brittain
Have you ever taken time to think about the commoners who are slaughtered in wars? Any war! Those who didn’t want the war, those who couldn’t say no, even those who have no voice. Why would another man have the power to declare war on behalf of anyone? Why should people be made to die by the mere fact that someone somewhere decides that the answer to a problem is war? Call me a coward, but war is not an answer to any question.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war.I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg.I like aggressive war. I like defensive war.I like sieges. I like breaking through.I like withdrawing. I like cleaning up.I like retreating.In moors. On highways. In trenches.In plains. On tundra. In desert.On sea. In sky. In mud.In marshes.I love every aspect of war that takes place on Earth.
— Kohta Hirano
think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.
— Ernest Hemingway
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
— Neil Gaiman
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
— Henry Thomas Buckle
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
— Walt Disney Company
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
— Marilyn Monroe
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
— Bob Dylan, Lyrics:1962 2001
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
— Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
— Louisa May Alcott
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
— Lao Tzu
I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
— Erma Bombeck
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
— Helen Keller
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
— L.M. Montgomery, The Road to Yesterday
Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
— Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State
When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
— Walt Disney Company
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
— Salvador Dalí
Permit your dreams to see the daylight.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
— Fernando Pessoa
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dr
— W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
— Werner Herzog
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
— Langston Hughes
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. 
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories