War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"Each person paid a different price."Death
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed"Judge Holden
"In every trade save war men have sought to perfect their instruments"Judge Holden
"Fire consumes everything."Werner
"Wars are always the same."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"All war is one war."Judge Holden
"Wars are made by politicians, not by soldiers"Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"War doesn't care about your dreams. It takes them away."Death
"The wars came and went, leaving behind only ruins and memories of what was lost."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him."Judge Holden
"The Nazi flags were everywhere."Death
"Death had never been busier."Death
"There was no time for sentiment."Death
"In war, people die who are not meant to die."Death
"Wars were not, as the mothers of the world were told, a consequence of an impulse toward the destruction of things"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"There is something godlike in the very bloodletting itself."Judge Holden
"War teaches nothing except the multiplicity of its own futility."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The war made them strange."Death
"Some colors are meant for suffering."Death
"War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence."Judge Holden
"Wars are not made of anything else but of defeated men."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The war didn't do anything."Hans Hubermann
"He was a savage with blue eyes."Liesel Meminger
"The sky was that color again. That strange, dark, violent color."Death
"War is god."Judge Holden
"The war had stripped away his youth."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"War leaves scars that never truly heal."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The war had begun and Liesel had missed it."Death
"Wars are not lost because of dead men. Wars are lost because of tired men."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"He said that war was a thing which could not be known but only endured."Judge Holden