W Quotes
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“War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.”
“War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.”
“War cannot eliminate differing ideas and viewpoints, and partisans of the defeated side do not disappear. Though subjugated, they become a sizable political constituency in the postwar period. A dictator may be able to repress them, and in democracies a numerical majority may outvote them, but neither can change their thoughts. Since civil wars are, by nature, deep and fundamental conflicts, the competition between the views that led to war is likely to resurface. The defeated side may be chastened or subdued, but its values and ways of seeing the world reappear, in some form, in politics [107].”
Source: Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
“War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.”
Source: The Faith of an American
“War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.”
Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition
“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.”
“War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.”
“War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.”
Source: Blood Hunt
“War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.”
“War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.”
“War creates peace like hate creates love.”
“War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'”
“War crimes, you say?
No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified.
I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return.
Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients at a time for no extra pay , the nuns who voluntarily teach English and math to children of refugee camps in the north, the monks who collect food to feed entire villages during crises, they are the people worth listening to, their opinion matters.
So find me one of them who will say: they wish the war didn't end in 2009, that they wish Sri Lanka was divided into two parts. Find me one of them who agrees with the international war crime allegations against Sri Lanka, and I will listen.
But I will not listen to the opinions of those who are paid to find faults in a war they were never a part of, a war they never experienced themselves. I will not listen to the opinions of those who watched the war on tv or read about it on the internet or were moved by a documentary on Al Jazeera.
The war is over. The damage is done. Let Sri Lanka move on. So our children will never have to see what we've seen.”
“War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.”
“War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.”
“War,” Dad said, “took strategy and organization.” He looked at Mom. “From what I remembered about history, the side with the best and most cutting-edge technology, were the ones with the biggest advantage.”
“And brute force,” Mom said. “Sometimes, wars were won just by brute force and numbers. Especially during the Ancient Times.” - Amazon Lee Adventures in China by Kira G. and Kailin Gow”
“War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.”
“War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.”
“War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!”
“War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?”
“War determines not who is right but who is left.”
“War Doctor: Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?
Eleventh Doctor: Yes.
[Claps his hands together]
Eleventh Doctor: No.”
“War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.”
Source: The Constant Princess
“War does not decide who is right but who is left.”
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
“War does not only kill men.
Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“War does terrible things to people, Noah. It haunts them in ways that I hope you will never have to live through or experience. This doesn’t make what I did right. But what you did for your brother made you a man in my eyes that day.”
Source: Mr. Hinkle's Verum Ink: the navy blue book
“War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It's ugly, and you don't even want to look at it let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice, once you know. Once you really know.”
Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“War doesn't breed heroes like you hear in the legends. It brings out the absolute worst in us.”
Source: Burn Red Skies
“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
Source: The Poppy War
“War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.”
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
Source: The Kite Runner
“War doesn’t only kill humans; it also kills love, trust and relations!”
“War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left”
“War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.”
“War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.”
Source: Over My Dead Body
“War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.”
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
“War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.”
“War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“War ends only when people love each other.”
“War es denn nicht auch manchmal schön gewesen? Hatte er immer nur die Lüge gespürt, die hier umging, und die böse heimliche Gewalt, die aus ganzen Kindergenerationen gehorsame Bürger machte? Es war manchmal schön gewesen, aber nur trotzdem.”
Source: Fabian: die Geschichte eines Moralisten
“War, famine, disease, genocide. Death, in a million different forms, often painful and protracted for the poor individual wretches involved. What god would so arrange the universe to predispose its creations to experience such suffering, or be the cause of it in others? What master of simulations or arbitrator of a game would set up the initial conditions to the same pitiless effect? God or programmer, the charge would be the same: that of near-infinitely sadistic cruelty; deliberate, premeditated barbarism on an unspeakably horrific scale.”
Hyrlis looked expectantly at them. “You see?” he said. “By this reasoning we must, after all, be at the most base level of reality – or at the most exalted, however one wishes to look at it. Just as reality can blithely exhibit the most absurd coincidences that no credible fiction could convince us of, so only reality – produced, ultimately, by matter in the raw – can be so unthinkingly cruel. Nothing able to think, nothing able to comprehend culpability, justice or morality could encompass such purposefully invoked savagery without representing the absolute definition of evil. It is that unthinkingness that saves us. And condemns us, too, of course; we are as a result our own moral agents, and there is no escape from that responsibility, no appeal to a higher power that might be said to have artificially constrained or directed us.”
Source: Matter
“War films usually so dark or dirty or intense, and sometimes they guide you to feeling a certain way against war, in general. But, to have a film that just speaks honestly to the soldier's experience and isn't jaded and is just authentic and easygoing in its message, I think is really nice to see.”
“War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.”
Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.”