Top 100 In War Quotes
#2. One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?
Antoine-Henri Jomini
#3. I've never killed men with so little regard. And it frightens me how easy I find it in war. There is no ambiguity here, no violation of moral creed. These people are warColors. They kill me or I kill them. It's simpler than the Passage.
Pierce Brown
#4. To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
#5. We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader.
Gordon Brown
#6. Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#7. In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#8. Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#9. Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city."
"There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
Scott Westerfeld
#10. The old men send the young to die in war,
But if the roles were reversed, what then the score?
Alan Cook
#11. After my time working for the government as a soldier, I reacquainted myself with the possibilities of government as a force for good beyond its awesome capacity as a force in war and security.
Wes Moore
#12. At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want ... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#14. Life has thought me that I am always alone in war; I have to fight for myself; and it is the best cause.
M.F. Moonzajer
#15. Winning is only important in war and surgery.
Al McGuire
#16. He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.
James McBride
#17. I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.
Craig Venter
#18. There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!
Sima Yi
#20. Where wasteful Time debateth with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night,
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new
William Shakespeare
#21. He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much as force.
Paul Graham
#23. History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.
Shigeru Yoshida
#24. As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.
Eugene B. Sledge
#25. In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.
Sun Tzu
#26. That made me hate you more. Happiness had no place in war
Kurt Vonnegut
#27. The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
Al Franken
#28. Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
Tamara Feldman
#29. Stone was fond of the sound bullets made. She was born in war, and lulled by a tune burrowed into her brain that she knew so well.
R.R. Washburn
#30. I wish I knew I was doing this right," Cheris said, "but there's nothing to it but to move forward."
"The only unforgivable sin in war is standing still," Jedao said. "It's better to be doing the wrong thing wholeheartedly than freeze.
Yoon Ha Lee
#31. For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
Walter Scott
#32. Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams
Dan Davin
#33. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.
Michael Monroe
#34. If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm
Christopher Paolini
#35. And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
Plato
#36. In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.
Dexter Filkins
#37. In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
Andrei Makine
#38. In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
Chris Hedges
#39. We prayed these wars would end all wars
In war we know is no romance.
(Done With Bonaparte)
Mark Knopfler
#40. Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.
Ulysses S. Grant
#41. That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.
Vin Weber
#42. The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in war!
Self
#43. We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
Antisthenes
#44. The smile he gave her was barely one at all. We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.
Kristin Hannah
#45. When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
Laozi
#46. Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.
Kenneth Waltz
#47. Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game,
Where wasted nations raise a single name;
And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret,
From age to age in everlasting debt;
Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey
To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
Samuel Johnson
#48. Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.
George S. Patton
#49. Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.
Barack Obama
#50. The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
Erik Larson
#51. In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War
Pierce Brown
#52. War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.
Mike Hoffman
#53. The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
Jean Giraudoux
#54. I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Otto Hahn
#55. Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.
Edward St. Aubyn
#56. But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
Thomas Day
#57. Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. Apple Jr.
#58. President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner
#59. Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
John O. Brennan
#60. In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#61. Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
Henry Ward Beecher
#62. In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
Phil Klay
#63. Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75
Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#64. Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
John Dryden
#65. If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi ... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
Douglas MacArthur
#67. 15. In war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.
Sun Tzu
#68. The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#69. Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#70. It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.
George W. Bush
#71. [D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#72. There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
Bernard De Mandeville
#74. It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.
Stefan Zweig
#75. They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
Alexander Cockburn
#77. Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.
Pope Francis
#78. Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#79. His generals were ready; his sons were. It remained to be seen whether the Arab nations were ready to meet them in war. In their arrogance, they had invited annihilation.
Conn Iggulden
#80. In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
Jean Giraudoux
#81. Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle ...
Saul Bellow
#83. 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
#84. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
Sun Tzu
#85. If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
#86. There is no cheating in war; there are only survivors and victims.
Brent Weeks
#87. Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.
Sun Tzu
#88. The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#89. In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
Bill Moyers
#90. I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
Thor Heyerdahl
#91. Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Gijs De Vries
#92. Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy
friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it ...
deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,
a cooling fan of feathers.
Thomas Dekker
#93. No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#94. Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny,
Emilie Schindler
#96. When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
Michael Meade
#97. Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
Thomas Hobbes
#99. As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. Just like all people - just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun and have a decent life. They are not interested in war - no one is, unless you are a professional soldier. Or a politician! And then of course it's your living!
Gerald Scarfe
