War
Quotes - It is not enough to win a war
“If
your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior
strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.
Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give
him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject
are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared,
appear where you are not expected .”
―
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Legion,
cuneum formate!’ Reyna yelled. ‘Advance!’ Another cheer on Jason’s right as
Percy and Annabeth reunited with the forces of Camp Half-Blood.
‘Greeks!’
Percy yelled. ‘Let’s, um, fight stuff!’ They yelled like banshees and charged.
Jason
grinned. He loved the Greeks. They had no organization whatsoever, but they
made up for it with enthusiasm.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
“If
you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a
question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget
there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and
tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag.
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular
songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram
them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they
feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel
they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be
happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“A
wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
―
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
“War
is over ... If you want it.”
―
John Lennon
“It
is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
―
Aristotle
“Do
you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
―
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
“How
is it possible to have a civil war?”
―
George Carlin
“Peace
is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.”
―
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“A
nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
―
Martin Luther King Jr.
“In
times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent
enim leges inter arma”
―
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A
thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer
than the truth.”
―
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
“Wars
are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
―
Martin Luther King Jr.
“To
know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
―
Sun Tzu
“They
wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.
But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will
die like a dog for no good reason.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“How
can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
―
Howard Zinn
“and
when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
―
Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life
“There
is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
―
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“The
enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
―
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“But
now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your
hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your
face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do
they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just
as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying
and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
―
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“Veni,
vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
―
Julius Caesar
“Imagine
there's no countries
It
isn't hard to do
Nothing
to kill or die for
And
no religion too
Imagine
all the people
Living
life in peace
You
may say that I'm a dreamer
But
I'm not the only one
I
hope someday you'll join us
And
the world will be as one”
―
John Lennon, Imagine
“It
doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's
dead.”
―
joseph heller, Catch-22
