Top 100 Good War Quotes
#1. Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.
Bill Willingham
#2. People create their own gods so that they could compete with other people's gods. It is not the humanity that fights but human gods. God war. Good war.
Aporva Kala
#3. You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is the violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
Louis L'Amour
#6. War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good ... war sucks.
Chris Kyle
#7. There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
Edward Abbey
#8. If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.
Stanley Ralph Ross
#9. There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a justified war but there is a war of necessity and we have to fight it if we want to assure our way of life even if it's the wrong one.
Boris Zubry
#10. You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht
#12. This is war,' I yelled through the door.
Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.
Janet Evanovich
#17. You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. War and courage have accomplished more great things than love of the neighbor. Not your pity but your courage has so far saved the unfortunate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.
Malalai Joya
#21. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
#22. Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
Sun Tzu
#23. It wasn't good when love and war came together to visit.
Lia Davis
#24. How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. Ran "Inchon" - it is a brutal but gripping picture about the Korean War and for once we're the good guys & the Communists are the villains. The producer was Japanese or Korean which probably explains the preceding sentence.
Ronald Reagan
#26. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
Adolf Hitler
#27. This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
David Benioff
#28. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#29. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.
Eugene B. Sledge
#30. Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
Winston Churchill
#31. War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.
Nikolas Lee
#33. I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same anymore, so what's the point?" ... "Still, I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else.
Paula McLain
#34. Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
Jennifer Armintrout
#35. Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.
Jasper Fforde
#36. Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
Haruki Murakami
#37. Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.
Jessica Fortunato
#38. I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.
Stonewall Jackson
#39. There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Abraham Lincoln
#41. It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to negotiate in good faith under the UN Charter, and to denounce war agitation particularly by the media.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#42. I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.
Luc Delahaye
#43. Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time ... This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.
Ariel Sharon
#44. No good can come from a species at war with itself.
Becky Chambers
#45. I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.
Henry V. O'Neil
#46. Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war!
J.K. Rowling
#47. Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?
Elizabeth Berg
#48. If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.
Charles Albert Gobat
#49. If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.
Howell Cobb
#50. To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.
Erwin Rommel
#51. I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation ... I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.
Ron Paul
#52. To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.
Janine Di Giovanni
#53. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know?' River Song, A Good Man Goes to War
Cavan Scott
#54. It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.
Adolf Hitler
#55. Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
Adolf Galland
#57. History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.
Terry Pratchett
#58. Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
Bruce Jackson
#59. There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.
Cindy Sheehan
#60. Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.
David Bellavia
#61. Two live grenades that nearly detonated each other. Wave the white flag and count your dead. The war is over. Nurse the wounded and heal your cuts. Write down the memories and tell the tales in later years when you can see the good with the bad.
Kate Monahan
#62. That would be one lousy way to end the human race, locked in a nuclear war with the Block while a Drasin fleet came down on all their heads. Not that there are many good ways to end the human race, I suppose.
Evan Currie
#65. Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.
Francois Rabelais
#66. Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto Von Bismarck
#67. I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.
Glenn Hubbard
#68. World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
Ken Follett
#69. He's afraid," Graber said.
"Yes, naturally. But he's a good dog."
"And a man-eater."
"We're all that."
"Why?"
"We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for a bit of warmth and light and friendship.
Erich Maria Remarque
#70. War makes death real to us, and that would have been regarded as one of its blessings by most of the great Christians of the past. They thought it good for us to be always aware of our mortality. I am inclined to think they were right.
C.S. Lewis
#71. We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
Joshua Ferris
#72. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
John Hersey
#73. Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
Anne Michaels
#74. It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it
Robert E. Lee
Greg Seeley
#75. 'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#76. War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.
Edwin Starr
#77. The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
Thomas More
#78. Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that - romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.
Kurt Vonnegut
#79. There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it!
Bernard Cornwell
#80. In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about that - for me, creativity is an important part of our evolution. Art has probably done more good for the world than war. But they're equally powerful. They both create revolutions.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#81. A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
Odeya Rush
#82. A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
#83. Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.
Patrick O'Brian
#84. You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war ... not a good comparison.
Ken Rosenthal
#85. Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
Derek Bok
#86. There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy
#87. A pen is neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it that makes it a weapon of war or a tool of peace.
Likewise, love is neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it that makes it the ultimate punishment or the greatest reward.
Lilly Mance
#88. When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
Jupiter Hammon
#89. Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.
Uri Orbach
#90. Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.
P. J. O'Rourke
#91. In war, good guys always become bad guys.
Howard Zinn
#92. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?
Rick Santorum
#93. Our relationship with the United States is not reduced to questions of fighting terrorism and the Iraq war. German-American relations were so good for so many years because they extended deeply into the normal lives of people.
Angela Merkel
#94. I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.
Robert E.Lee
#95. The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things ... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.
Shelby Foote
#96. The months have been good to Tiberias Calore. A life of war suits him. He seems vibrant and alive, even after narrowly escaping death on the walls.
Victoria Aveyard
#97. War does one good - it teaches people geography.
Will Durant
#98. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
Melina Marchetta
#99. The final word belongs to one of Truman's aides, George Elsey. "It's all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing," he commented subsequently. "The whole goddamn war was a horrible thing.
William E. Leuchtenburg
#100. How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
Aberjhani
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