W Quotes
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“War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.”
Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
“War is very cruel, a predatory jungle, and is never the true path of life.”
“War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.”
“War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.”
“War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.”
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
Source: Animal Farm
“War is what happens when language fails.”
Source: The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'
“War is when people kill one another, right? Why would they do that?”
Source: Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.”
“War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.”
“War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.”
“War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other. I was very young, and very angry. Maybe that is no excuse...”
“War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.”
“War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.”
“War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.”
“War is young men dying and old men talking”
“War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.”
“War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.”
Source: Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
“War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.”
“War isn't about making history
war is about breaking the present.”
“War isn’t hell. Hell is hell and war is war. One is deliberate the other indiscriminate. In all cultures who lean towards religiosity, they all have a place of reward and another of damnation and punishment. Hell, Hel, Jehenam, anyone who’s there know why they’re there and that they deserve it. Hell is very specific when it comes to those who reside within its domain.”
“War on the other hand, cares for naught. No one is safe, no one is natural, everyone is a victim-in-waiting, and every shot fried, every bomb dropped is indiscriminate as to who it hits. Hell is a realm of punishment and specificity. War a realm of utter madness. It’s place where morality can be casually abandoned if too inconvenient. Where God and the devil turn a blind eye to brutality and violence.”
“War, Agent Moli, is a failure of civilisation. Because once we commit to it, we’ve effectively said that reason has failed, and violence is only the solution to resolve our arguments. The gods are blind, and all is permitted under the sun.”
Moli took his hand in her and squeezed. “I know,” she said softly. “Yeah, I could tell,” said Ben. “Your eyes...they tell of one who has been bodies piled high as mountains.”
“They do?”
Ben nodded. “I fear...that you can’t go back to being the woman you once were. You live in a different world now. You know the price of freedom and that blood is a very costly currency.”
Moli soaked in those words. Then closed her eyes.
She nodded as the tears ran down her face.”
Source: The Weapons Masters: Planet Heist!!:
“War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and not the two, war is a lot worse.”
“War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and of the two, war is a lot worse.”
“War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.”
“War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“War? It is not so terrible! The death of a man is indeed appalling, but one hundred thousand deaths is a statistic.”
“War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.”
Source: 1984
“War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.”
“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”
Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
“War just kills me!”
“War justifies everything.”
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
“War knows no boundaries. It affects us all in some way, whether we realize it or not.”
“War knows no law except that of might.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
Secretly armed against all death's endeavour;
Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall;
And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“War leads to peace.
[Lat., Cedant arma togae.]”
“War leaves vacancies within the ranks of humanity.”
“War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.”
“War, like death, is a great leveller, and mutual suffering and endurance had made us all friends.”
Source: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
“War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)”
“War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.”
“War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.”
“War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first that the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.”
“War loves to seek its victims in the young.”
“war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.”
“War made the state, and the state made war”
“War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.”
“War makes early risers of us all.”
Source: Downton Abbey Script Book Season 2