War Quotes

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

George Carlin

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I do not know how the third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks!

Albert Einstein

Meaningful Quotes

Weapon

We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

War does not follow you, Dr. Watson. You are following her.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I must spill yet more blood, so the blood already spilt will not be in vain.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Season 1

Episode 13

Lelouch Lamperouge / Lelouch Vi Britannia (Zero)

War's never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms.

— Why's that flying here?
— A battleship?
— On its way to burn cities and people.
— The enemy's? Ours?
— What difference does it make?

Hauru no ugoku shiro

Howl

Sophie Hatter

Demons run when a good man goes to war.
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war.
Friendship dies and true love lies.
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war.
Demons run, but count the cost.
The battle's won, but the child is lost.

They got money for wars but they can’t feed the poor.

Tupac Shakur

Government

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

George Carlin

Sarcastic Quotes

World

"I am going to a war."
“What war?”
“What war? Any war. I haven’t seen a paper lately but I suppose there’s a war—there always is.”

Every time someone tries to win a war before it starts, innocent people die.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Steve Rogers / Captain America

Sad Quotes

Four things greater than all things are,
Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

Power, Authority

Women

War was not glory but dirt and misery.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Ashley Wilkes

— They attacked me!
— They threw a cow pie at you, so you decided to kill them all? They're starving, you fool. All because of a war you started.
— You're talking to a king!
— And now l've struck a king. Did my hand fall from my wrist?

War Quotes

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