War Quotes - Page 119

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is universal law and each individual must manifest this law. Man will forever war with man until he learns to give his all with the full expectation of equal receiving, and never taking that which is not given as an earned reward for his giving.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

The profound divergences of opinion on war and peace had been shown to know no sex.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.