War Quotes - Page 5

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.

The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard - let alone answered?

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress - to the future.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Peace is not an easy prospect-it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

In school, it got so that Elijah learned to talk his way out of anything, gave great long speeches so that his words snaked themselves like vines around the nuns until they could no longer move, [...].

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.