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War Quotes

War, remembered and reckoned with.

This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

Quotes by Giulio Andreotti

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

Quotes by Giorgio Napolitano

After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.

Quotes by Gillian Armstrong

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Quotes by Gilbert Parker

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

Quotes by Giles Duley

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

Quotes by Gijs de Vries

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Quotes by Gil Kane

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Quotes by Gianni Agnelli

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Quotes by Gianni Agnelli

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

Quotes by Gideon Raff

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Quotes by Gideon Welles

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and...

Quotes by Gerrit Smith

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Quotes by Gerrit Smith

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Quotes by Gerry Adams

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Quotes by Gerry Adams

My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the...

Quotes by Gertrude B. Elion

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

Quotes by Gerhard Schroder

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this page reference literature about war?
Yes. One quote reflects on reading novels that portrayed a world with a strong social fabric, noting: "People knew each other in 'War and Peace.'" It's a literary angle on the topic, rather than a historical or personal one. For more big-idea quotes, see Great quotes.
Is there a quote about the 1962 India-China border war?
Yes. One quote states plainly: "China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that." It's a direct historical reference within the quote itself. Browse History quotes for more quotes rooted in real events.
Does this collection touch on the aftermath of World War I?
Yes. One quote describes how the end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil, noting that the reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation. It's a sober historical observation.
Is there a quote that uses a chess metaphor to describe the war?
Yes - one quote compares the situation for Germany to an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary, adding that the loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under those conditions. It's a vivid, strategic way of describing an outcome that felt inevitable. For more thought-provoking metaphors, see Life quotes.
What kinds of war-related quotes does this page bring together?
A mix of literary reflection, direct historical fact, and vivid metaphor - from a mention of 'War and Peace,' to the 1962 India-China border war, to World War I's aftermath in Germany, to a chess-based description of a war's inevitable loss. For more first-person reflections, see Me quotes.

Two entries look at Germany's condition in the aftermath of its 1918 defeat, one describing the disillusionment of a younger generation and the other comparing the loss to an inevitable endgame in chess. For more reflective lines, see Great or Life.