War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

C
"The war was not an adventure but a profession"
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
J
"War is god. I know that. I have always known it."
Judge Holden
J
"War endures. It is the condition of man."
Judge Holden
G
"The most interesting thing about it was that it was not yet known what the war was about."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"War endures. It is the condition of the world."
Judge Holden
J
"In war there are no innocents."
Judge Holden
J
"War is the truest form of existence."
Judge Holden
J
"He looked at the young man and smiled thinly and he said that war endured because young men still thought it noble"
Judge Holden
G
"The board is set, the pieces are moving."
Gandalf
J
"He would be pleased. War itself is the truest form of divination."
Judge Holden
J
"There is no God in the world save war."
Judge Holden
G
"The board is set, the pieces are moving."
Gandalf
G
"And so it begins."
Gandalf
C
"In the game of thrones, you win or you die."
Cersei Lannister
D
"The battle was lost before it began"
Davos Seaworth
C
"There are no winners in war, only survivors"
Catelyn Stark
N
"The lords of Westeros love war"
Ned Stark
D
"There is no conquest without blood and suffering"
Daenerys Targaryen
C
"Blood will have blood."
Catelyn Stark
S
"In battle, luck matters as much as skill."
Stannis Baratheon
C
"A sword is not a good omen for peace."
Catelyn Stark
J
"War changes men"
Jaime Lannister
C
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die."
Cersei Lannister
J
"I choose violence"
Jaime Lannister
D
"I will take what is mine with fire and blood."
Daenerys Targaryen
D
"War teaches hard lessons about humanity."
Dalinar Kholin
M
"The Light does not shine equally on all lands."
Moiraine Damodred
D
"War teaches us what we value most when everything else is stripped away."
Dalinar Kholin
C
"I choose violence"
Cersei Lannister
L
"In battle, hesitation is death."
Lan Mandragoran