Quotes about War

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Warriors

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Waiting

They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

2Pac

Greed

War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.

Niko Bellic in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - IV

I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

Warriors

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

Greed

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Saving Private Ryan

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace Revenge

The stronger we are, the less likely a war is.

Otto von Bismarck

Strength

A wise king never seeks out war, but he must always be ready for it.

Odin in Thor

Kings

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Odysseus in Troy

Politics

Sometimes, a truce is the most important part of a war.

The Professor in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 2

Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton in Paradise Lost

Violence

War. War never changes.

Narrator in Fallout

Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?

Achilles in Troy

Kings

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King - Rede in St. Louis

Peace Brothers Volkstrauertag

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

Admiral Yamamoto in Pearl Harbor

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

Memorial Day Volkstrauertag

No longer certain, that one ever does win a war, I am. For in fighting the battles, the bloodshed, already lost we have.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 6 Episode 13

War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.

Carl von Clausewitz - On War

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Jacques Chirac

Peace

Kill a few hundred people, they make you a lord. Kill a few thousand, they make you king.

Bronn in Game of Thrones - Season 8 Episode 4

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Avigdor Lieberman

Peace

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Peace Fighting

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Otto von Bismarck

Iron

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

Solas in Dragon Age - Inquisition

Good & Evil

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

Death

What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters.

Javik in Mass Effect

Honor

Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than just act without any thought or doubt.

Khan in Metro - 2033

Morality

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fight in it.

Odysseus in Troy

Heros

You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.

Achilles in Troy

The loneliness does not come from the war. The war did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the war.

William Saroyan

Solitude & Loneliness

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

Albert Einstein

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

Volkstrauertag

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Al Capone

Weapons

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

Randall Wallace in Pearl Harbor

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)

Mistakes

There's a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare, and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history – is the will of a single man.

Captain John Price in Call of Duty - Modern Warfare

Attacking & Offense

Some say war is hell. But war isn't hell. For in hell, the innocent are spared.

Tai Kaliso in Gears of War

Hölle

A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.

Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western Front

War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Zedong

Weapons

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Marvin Gaye

Too easily, words of war become acts of war.

Maester Luwin in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Words

Never stop war by taking part in one.

Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II

Argument Fighting

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

David Letterman

Weapons

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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Death Allerheiligen Volkstrauertag

Fighting's for grownups, and that's only if you got no other choice.

Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Fighting

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Brisingr

Warriors Morality

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