War Quotes

Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.

10745 quotes

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