Quotes of: Wars Keyword

We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...

White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

War and Peace

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

War and Peace

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

War and Peace

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

War and Peace

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

War and Peace

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

War and Peace

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

War and Peace

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

War and Peace

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

War and Peace

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

What It is Like to Go to War

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

What It is Like to Go to War

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

The Wednesday Wars

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

Benazir Bhutto

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Martin Van Creveld

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

Richard Engel

Remember, we who fell like stars from Heaven still shine bright in our own court.

Angel War

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

The Art of War

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

The Art of War