War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."Judge Holden
"War is god and god is war and they have always been one and the same."Judge Holden
"The war had taught her that innocence was something you lost, not gained."Briony Tallis
"The war had only produced an inveterate habit of failure and a deathly weariness in his bones"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"He said that war was god's way of teaching geography."Judge Holden
"War crimes and crimes against humanity."Judge Holden
"The war had started, and words were scattered like blood across the page."Death
"Wars are not won by artillery."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"War makes us understand that we are not immortal."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"Wars are made by something inside of men, something deep inside of them."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The war would make her a better writer."Briony Tallis
"They burned books as if burning words could burn away the truth."Death
"The only thing worse than a war is another war."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The wars are history now; only the soldiers remain, like ghosts."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"Death has never been busier, and will be busier still."Death
"The world was a book written in blood."Death
"We are all monsters, but the real monstrosity is refusing to acknowledge that we are."Werner
"The war had become a permanent state of being."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"War is god."Judge Holden
"The war doesn't care about your innocence."Werner
"War turns soldiers into ghosts before they die."Werner
"Perhaps war is not men's business after all."Werner
"War endures. By it all other trades are measured."Judge Holden
"The judge spoke of the nature of war and of men's enterprises in war"Judge Holden
"The fever of war is incurable and those who suffer it cannot rest while there is blood left to spill."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The war would end in such a way that neither of us would know if we won or lost."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"Killing is what we do best."Death
"Death has never been busier."Death
"The world exists in a state of war"Judge Holden
"Men are made for war"Judge Holden