Logo - Feel The Words

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.

I grew up playing games like 'War Zone' and the old 'Smackdown,' so I'm very excited to see myself in a game.

Quotes by Sheamus

A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal. It's even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They're talking to you about war and...

Quotes by Shawn Crahan

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Quotes by Sharon Stone

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

Quotes by Sharron Angle

I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.

Quotes by Severn Cullis-Suzuki

I joined the 'Times' in 1972, and I came with the mark of Cain on me because I was clearly against the war. But my editor, Abe Rosenthal, he hired me because he liked stories. He used to come to...

Quotes by Seymour Hersh

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many...

Quotes by Seth Grahame-Smith

There is a healthy disrespect among veterans who served on the front lines for people who walk around telling war stories.

Quotes by Seth Moulton

The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.

Quotes by Seth Moulton

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'

Quotes by Seth Numrich

The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that...

Quotes by Serge Schmemann

When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.

Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Quotes by Sebastian Thrun

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Quotes by Sebastian Junger

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

Quotes by Sebastian Junger

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Quotes by Sebastian Junger

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to...

Quotes by Sebastian Junger

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.