War And Death Quotes

• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Hate, Passion

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Fear, War

  "On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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  War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Death, Military, War

  "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.

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• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Peace, Military

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  Sad, Witty, Powerful

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.

  Pittacus Lore

  Real, War, Needs

  Pittacus Lore (2010). “I Am Number Four”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• My mind lets go a thousand things,
  Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Letting Go, Kings, War

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.

  Janet Morris

  Love, War, Honor

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• We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into "war" and "death" and put it into life and true justice.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Teacher, War, People

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  Dawn Powell

  War, Men, Vanity

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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