War
Quotes - Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down
“Supreme
excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
―
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“All
warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem
unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we
must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him
believe we are near.”
―
Sun tzu, The Art of War
“Dad,
how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
―
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition
Catalogue
“Every
gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the
final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold
and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is
spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of
its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the
clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
―
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It
is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead
to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been
encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do
the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
―
Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“If
everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Sometimes
you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
―
Malcom X
“There's
never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were
certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are
doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question
the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
―
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“When
the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
―
Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
“The
world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“You
can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at
once.”
―
Robert A. Heinlein
“I
am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death,
fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how
peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly,
obediently, innocently slay one another.”
―
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“You
do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me
because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know
where you are going. I do.”
―
Pierce Brown, Red Rising
“It's
hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
―
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Stood
in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new
continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what
cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked
at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold,
suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking
anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children,
hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence
is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too
long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not
shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not
fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only
us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its
illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design
on this morally blank world.
Was
Rorschach.
Does
that answer your Questions, Doctor?”
―
Alan Moore, Watchmen
