War Quotes - Page 14

When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

Why don't you go to bed for a bit, Glory?" suggested Robert. "It's been a hell of a war."
It's been a hell of a war, he said. I'll never forget it.

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle.
But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now

The English... are the most deplorable milksops. They are creatures of that miserable sort who loudly proclaim that torture is too good for their enemies and then give tea and cigarettes to the first wounded German pilot who turns up at the back door.

We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.’
‘We burned York two winters ago,’ Drogo pointed out.

This war. It's stolen our peace. It's stolen our tomorrows as well as our yesterdays.

No one person is the cause for or consequence of all that happens. I am just the tenth man, the threshold, the turn in the tide. I stand here on the shoulders of humanity, a mere instrument of Time.
– Govinda Shauri

The Wheel of Time spins: there is beginning and there is end. But why does the Wheel of Time spin? Is it some divine force that propels it? Or is that force humanity, people in search of change and a better way of life?
– Asvattama Bharadvaja

My Life glass lays on its sides,

Lodging new and old sand hives.

Longing for a crack to slip through,

Lying for their lack of plain clue.

Lounging loosely on each end,

Laughing to be spent or spend.

My dirt clock is lazy still,

I beg God, one end to fill.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.
In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own . . . and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.

Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

Weaponry is a fear-raising idea.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.