Victim Of War Quotes

#1. Here and there, a form stirred feebly, victim of war's sorcery, struggling against the enchantment of death.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin Of Belgium

#3. If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Alan Gorrie

#4. Fight it, put on your show little Luna. Because if the witch lets you go, I'll eat your kidneys like conversation hearts," War snarled and bit down hard on his victim's shoulder, tearing the skin and fascia.

Saranna DeWylde

#5. We are all victims of war, and we all count.

Marla Ruzicka

#6. Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

John Ortberg

#7. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.

Patrick Ness

#8. And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

Doris Salcedo

#9. The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

Ted Nugent

#10. Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'

Stephen Covey

#11. If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

David Mitchell

#12. As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

Guy Sajer

#13. Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.

David Brin

#14. To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Ewa Kopacz

#15. Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

Roma Tearne

#16. The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#17. That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.

Joseph Heller

#18. None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

Elie Wiesel

#19. Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Elias Canetti

#20. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

William Goldman

#21. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.

Tim O'Brien

#22. Truth is always War's first victim, the old saying went.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#23. I mean, go figure. You prepare your home for an assault and you don't take zombies into consideration. I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

Jim Butcher

#24. History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.

Bobby Adair

#25. War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Sophocles

#26. In a civil war ... every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

Philip K. Dick

#27. Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

Ewa Kopacz

#29. Watanabe would later admit that in the beginning of his life in exile, he had pondered the question of whether or not he had committed any crime. In the end, he laid the blame not on himself but on "sinful, absurd, insane war." He saw himself as a victim.

Laura Hillenbrand

#30. In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free.
Sara Niles
Torn From the Inside Out

Sara Niles

#31. It was hard to imagine that war raged somewhere in Europe. We had a war of our own, waiting for the NKVD to choose the next victim, to throw us in the next hole.

Ruta Sepetys

#32. In wars amongst ideas,
doubters are the victims.

Toba Beta

#33. It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.

Timothy Snyder

#34. I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

Dave Pelzer

#35. Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

William Goldman

#36. [In "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"], death took on an existential quality -- the beloved, innocent but weak Gwen is merely a victim, the casualty of a war between superpowered rivals -- and as such the episode proved a turning point int eh genre's depiction of mortality.

Jose Alaniz

#37. I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.

Pearl Tan

#38. There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?

Jay Woodman