Quotes about War
We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.
— Elie Wiesel
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
— Alice Walker
I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
— Pope Francis
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
— Muqtada al Sadr
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
— Anne Reid
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
— Robert Kiyosaki
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
— Richard Nixon
Further, churches assert their wish to save men from a future hell. Then they should prove their love toward men by helping save the world from today's hell of illiteracy, hunger, misery, tyranny, exploitation, and war.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Our sacrifice—the best we have to offer, And not our worst nor second best, our best, Our very best, our lives laid down like Jonah's Our lives laid down in war and peace—may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. 'May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
— Robert Frost