War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"War isn't a pleasant experience. It's terrifying for everyone involved."Billy Pilgrim
"War is hell, but profiteering is business."Milo Minderbinder
"War reveals the true nature of men—and it is ugly."Yossarian
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed."Yossarian
"War is madness, and those who profit from it are the true enemy"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"The only problem was that flying more missions meant certain death."Yossarian
"In the chaos of battle, order emerges from surrender to necessity."General Kutuzov
"They shoot down *our* planes, we shoot down *theirs*."Milo Minderbinder
"The enemy is anybody that's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on."Yossarian
"The moment of battle is not the moment of battle."General Kutuzov
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."O'Brien
"This is war."Billy Pilgrim
"It is our custom to destroy documents at regular intervals to keep our records up to date."Syme
"How can the commanders make plans when nothing is ever known about the enemy?"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"Do you know what happened when the Germans captured me?"Billy Pilgrim
"The wars outside my window don't mean anything to the ones inside."Billy Pilgrim
"The war was real, even if everything else wasn't."Yossarian
"The enemy is anyone who's going to get you killed."Yossarian
"All wars are unjust."Yossarian
"We Russians ought not to fight for every German quarrel"General Kutuzov
"They're all mad."Yossarian
"They don't know what we're doing."Milo Minderbinder
"The presence of military power in any country is the surest guarantee of peace."General Kutuzov
"Dresden was as unreal as the moon."Billy Pilgrim
"I know it is all very terrible. I know the war must be done somehow."Billy Pilgrim
"War is not courtesy but the most dreadful thing in life."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."Yossarian
"Some people deserve to be bombed."Milo Minderbinder
"War is not courtship"General Kutuzov
"In war the strongest weapon is not steel but the will of the people"General Kutuzov