T Quotes
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“The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.”
“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...”
Source: The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia
“The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.”
“The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.”
Source: Hardtack: A Civil War Story
“The war existing between the senses and reason.”
Source: Pensées
“The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.”
“The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.”
“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively Indian war. Its a war for the rivers and the mountains and the forests of the world. All sorts of warriors from all over the world, anyone who wishes to enlist, will be honored and welcomed. Every kind of warrior will be needed. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, judges, journalists, students, sportsmen, painters, actors, singers, lovers . . . The borders are open, folks! Come on in.”
Source: The cost of living
“The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.”
“The war going on within you is a reflection of every war that has ever taken place… past, present, and future. Each individual is a Spiritual Warrior and there is only one demon you must conquer…your SELF. You are the devil and you are the savior. You are a human with free will, and every morning you wake up and you make a choice.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things that were fought somewhere else, won somehow, by someone, and lost by someone else. Now as she stood by her own door and listened to the cannons, it was with a chilling, dreadfully full and clear realization that men were out on the field beneath that gray cloud taking each other’s lives.”
Source: War Memorial
“The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.”
“The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.”
Source: A Man of Honor
“The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.”
Source: The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up
“The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.”
Source: Lee: The Last Years
“The war had shot humanism full of holes, and what came rushing in was the infernal heat of a barren moral wasteland that could hardly be sown with new ideals, since it was abundantly clear how far astray the old ones had led us. The new politics that would now flare up was fueled by wrath, resentment, rancor, and vengefulness, and showed even greater potential for destruction.”
Source: War and Turpentine
“The war had started a long time ago, before their great-grandfathers were born, and there were many stories about why and who had started it; the truth becoming lies, then truth again, then lies again; history twisted like a snake, changing on the whims of each new ruler.”
Source: The Game and the Board
“The war has become institutionalized. It is no longer a special program or politicized project; it is simply the way things are done.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.”
Source: Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)
“The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.”
Source: Candle in the Darkness
“The war has ended with every one owing every one else immense sums of money. Germany owes a large sum to the Allies, the Allies owe a large sum to Great Britain, and Great Britain owes a large sum to the United States. The holders of war loan in every country are owed a large sum by the States, and the States in its turn is owed a large sum by these and other taxpayers. The whole position is in the highest degree artificial, misleading, and vexatious. We shall never be able to move again, unless we can free our limbs from these paper shackles.”
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.”
“The war has ruined us for everything.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
“The war, however, and the rhetoric that accompanied it created an urgency in the black community to call in the long overdue debt their country owed them. "Men of every creed and every race, wherever they lived in the world" were entitled to "Four Freedoms": freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, Roosevelt said, addressing the American people in his 1941 State of the Union address.”
Source: Hidden Figures
“The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.”
“The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.”
“The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagonizes, not caring about the effects on neighboring regions.”
“The war in Gaza has caused immense human suffering, and many people around the world are deeply disturbed by the scale of destruction and loss of civilian life. Reports from humanitarian organizations, journalists, and international bodies have documented heavy casualties, displacement, and the devastation of homes, hospitals, and infrastructure.
Whenever advanced military weapons are used in densely populated areas, the humanitarian consequences can be catastrophic. Civilians — especially children, the elderly, and non-combatants — often bear the heaviest burden. This has led to widespread global debate about the legality, morality, and proportionality of modern warfare, as well as the responsibility of countries supplying weapons.
International humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, requires that all parties in conflict distinguish between civilians and combatants and avoid disproportionate harm to civilian populations. Calls for ceasefires, investigations, and accountability have come from various governments, NGOs, and human rights groups.
Beyond politics and military strategy, the core issue remains human: thousands of families on all sides are grieving, displaced, and living through trauma. Many observers stress that long-term peace and security can only come through dialogue, diplomacy, and respect for human rights and dignity for all people in the region.”
“The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.”
“The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.”
“The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.”
“The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But the benefits have been elusive at best - partly because the ostensible reasons for going war were unconnected with reality - no weapons of mass destruction, no connections with 9/11.”
“The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.”
“The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.”
“The war in Iraq was unwinnable.”
“The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.”
“The war in Ukraine is using Jammers. Hardly any radio communication works there. Their emissions are bad for the health of the population.”
“The war in Ukraine makes Americans and Westerners look almost like angels when it comes to invading other nations.”
“The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.”
“The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.”
“The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.”
“The war in Vietnam was little more than an attempt… to keep the people of Indochina ‘in their place and enslaved.”
Source: The Full Circle for Mick
“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”
“The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted. We had no other option - there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country. It was in possession of heavy weapons, ballistic missiles and even an air force. Should we stand by idly while this happens at our doorstep, in one of the countries in which al-Qaida has a huge presence? So we responded, as part of a coalition, at the request of the legitimate government of Yemen, and we stepped in to support them.”
“The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the world. The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.”
“The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.”
“The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.”
“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.”
“The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.”
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence