Quotes on War

When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.