Quotes about war
war disease use
I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease. Wilfred Owen
war party horizon
The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death.
war eye boys
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
war lying latin
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
war saws mud
I, too, saw God through mud
war moon men
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
war gun bells
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
war pity poetry-is
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
war book hero
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
war white guy
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. Waylon Jennings
war home fighting
The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
war loathing details
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. Vladimir Nabokov
war night color
If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. Yoko Ono
war thinking people
Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?
war artist sides
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
war thinking vietnam
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
war thinking people
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
war important ends
The end is important in all things. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
war taken men
It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.
war punishment good-times
A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.
war thinking winning
If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.
war moments distraction
Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.
war long people
As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.
war grief men
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.
war bravery humanity
Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
war world sincerity
As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity.
war bitterness doe
It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.
war three looks
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.
war talking people
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.
war thinking levels
There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.
war way beginners
By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
war cutting able
Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.
war beginnings-and-ends middle
The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.