Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The Left Hand of Darkness

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

The Lotus Eaters

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

Letters From Home

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

Lullaby

My thoughts war. Part of me needs to protect her; part of me wants something else. Something vile. Wrong.

Libera Me

Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.

The Light Between Oceans

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Lark & Termite

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Lysistrata

War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

When an invincible weapon deals with an impenetrable defense, war is useless. The wisest decision is to ceasefire and do synergy.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land. Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

Slaughterhouse-Five

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Selected Poems

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

Special Forces - Soldiers

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

A Storm of Swords

When the war comes, you’ll find me on the front line, with some crayons, coloring outside the lines.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Stark's War

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

Tigerman

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten.

Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.

The Pieces We Keep