War Quotes - Attack is the secret of defense
“The law of evolution is that the
strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social
species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is
no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
“The great Gaels of Ireland are
the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and
all their songs are sad.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of
the White Horse
“Never in the field of human
conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
― Winston Churchill
“All this time I told myself we
were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the
fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to
spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're
Briefly Gorgeous
“All wars are civil wars because
all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to
the particular country in which he was born.”
― Francois de Salignac de La
Mothe- Fenelon
“Violence, naked force, has
settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship
Troopers
“Rouse him, and learn the
principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to
find out his vulnerable spots.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Great danger is always
associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre
is that the great are willing to take the risk.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
“War is sweet to those who have
never fought.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The
Catastrophic History of You and Me
“I have told my sons that they
are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of
massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also
told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to
express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.”
― Kurt Vonnegut,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“But these weren't the kind of
monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might
be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp
uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they
are until it's too late.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's
Home for Peculiar Children
“A love for tradition has never
weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
― Winston S. Churchill
“Maybe this was how you stayed
sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
“He had been bored, that's all,
bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life
full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most
human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or
death. Hurray then for funerals!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall
“And America, too, is a delusion,
the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its
heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war.
Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in
the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we
are.”
― Colson Whitehead, The
Underground Railroad
“In 2012 about 56 million people
died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war
killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000
committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more
dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A
History of Tomorrow
“One mark of a great soldier is
that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.”
― Sun Tzu
“Every man should lose a battle
in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for
Crows
“Unless one lives and loves in
the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization
is ceaseless.”
― Audre Lorde
“What the war did to dreamers.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We
Cannot See
“At seventeen the young woman had
worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor
“Attack is the secret of defense;
defense is the planning of an attack.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Sisters in battle, I am shield
and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I
live, your cause is mine.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman:
Warbringer
“War is not for winning,
Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer
strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.”
― Catherynne M. Valente,
Deathless
“One of the great tragedies of
life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession,
between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us
tragically divided against ourselves. On the one hand, we proudly profess
certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practise
the very antithesis of these principles. How often are our lives characterised
by a high blood pressure of creeds and an anaemia of deeds! We talk eloquently
about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are
saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to
democracy, but we sadly practise the very opposite of the democratic creed. We
talk passionately about peace, and at the same time we assiduously prepare for
war. We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread
unflinchingly the low road of injustice. This strange dichotomy, this agonising
gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man
― Martin Luther King Jr.,
Strength to Love
“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of
leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our
doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life
itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice
aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our
kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our
light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t
understand
that my soul and your soul are
old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t
understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t
understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri
