War
Quotes - A true war story is never moral
“It
is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God
that such men lived.”
―
George S. Patton Jr.
“A
true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor
suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things
men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end
of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of
rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the
victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There
is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war
story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
―
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
“Even
the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
―
Sun Tzu
“ “I am running back my tent to get my
sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran
to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
―
Michael G. Kramer
“The
nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline,
one with three matches, the other with five.”
―
Carl Sagan
“He
who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He
has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and
all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I
hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to
shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing
under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Our
strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To
deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our
literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness
– and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the
ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
The
corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling –
their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion
of inevitability.
Remember
this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another
world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her
breathing.”
―
Arundhati Roy, War Talk
“When
you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too
hard.”
―
sun tzu, The Art of War
“Move
swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be
still as the Mountain.”
―
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“It
was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that
They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us,
what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly
never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one
of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
“For
the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
―
elie wiesel
“War
doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace."
- Baba”
―
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“We
are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing.
We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love
life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
―
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“The
human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."
"I
suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."
"You
are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That
was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions
had not the courage to be good.”
―
John Fowles, The Magus
“No
one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
―
Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom Of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The
words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
―
Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
“The
choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and
nonexistence.”
―
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Children
ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them
to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were
not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
―
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
“She's
just one of the plethora of women you rotate through your bed." Lily
looked scared out of her mind as the queen changed direction and stalked her.
"I will not allow you to besmirch the Esca name with your filthy plot to
steal the prince.”
―
Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
