War Quotes - Page 19

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

This constant basso on the horizon
is it the waterfall
or the cannon

("Poem")

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

Millions cheer the warrior
spilling blood across the ring
while the one who stands for peace
is ridiculed and shamed.
Must hearts forever suffer
from ignorance and greed?
Can bombs heal our souls
or set our spirits free?

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

You can never trust a Vampire, child.

Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…

I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear...