War Quotes Quotes

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“THE GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT IS WINNING ALL THE BATTLES THEN LOSING THE WAR”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“A thousand
KNOWN ENEMIES
are better than
one
UNKNOWN ENEMY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Never rush to destroy your enemies.
Let them live long enough to see your success”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“SADLY,
sometimes, we have to know the horrors of WAR,
before we can appreciate the beauty of PEACE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Who said the British empire was gone?! When I travel around the world and see and hear the English language everywhere, I know that the empire on which the sun never sets, is still alive. It never died. It continued to exist, but in a different shape, its language, English, which has become the global language.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Kill extremists,
extremism will REAPPEAR.
Kill extremist ideology,
extremism will DISAPPEAR.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The two enemies of
HUMANITY
are
IMPERIALISM
and
EXTREMISM.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The recent renewal of hostilities in the Middle East and cross-border casualties and damage prove once again the fragility of unilateral decisions and quick fixes and their failure to ensure safety and STABILITY.
Israelis and Palestinians need to move fast towards a permanent settlement to enjoy lasting peace and SECURITY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“War doesn’t only kill humans; it also kills love, trust and relations!”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“There is only one road to true and permanent peace in the world.
And it goes through true belief in love and humanity.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH WAR TO REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF PEACE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“HUMANITY
Is the only way
to peace and
STABILITY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“If everyone decided to forgive at least one person who hurt them by the end of the year, the world would be filled with people exchanging hugs and kisses, instead of words and bullets.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Be like Abel who said to Cain:
To strike you in self-defence, gives me pain.
For to take your life, what can I gain?
Your blood will eternally remain,
In all my days to be a stain,
Forever on my mind
and upon my brain.”
― Mohamad Jebara, The Illustrious Garden

“Not only can what others are suffering be a consolation while we are suffering, but even knowing what others suffered long ago can be consoling.”
― Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross

“Friends we may not be, enemies we shall not become,
Bound by understanding, conflicts we will overcome.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I summarize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as two peaceful peoples who form the majority, caught in the crossfire between extremists who are the minority—each dreaming of annihilating the other they call enemy and danger, and extending their control from the water to the water, fueled by hate, revenge and anger.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“War was a terrible, fickle thing–an eternal, horrendous nightmare for those who lived it, and a thing easily forgotten by those who didn’t.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“War is the tragic echo of humanity's inability to listen before raising swords.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The bravest battle fought is the one that ends war before it begins.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“If I sent my soldiers into Suhai it would be an invasion. It would look just as it does when General Ahkpi’s militia storms our walls. Thousands would die, another meaningless war that history would blame on greed. If Emperor Nahkon is overthrown, it must be by the people.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“In love, I will surrender myself and In war, you have to surrender yourself.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“War and ceasefire

There was a war followed by a ceasefire,
Swaths of land lay covered in ashes and dead men and women,
Beside them lay still unfilled dreams and many a desire,
Wherever one looked there appeared no end to them then,

Because a country defeated in war,
Enters into the state of passive spirit,
Where to the victor, spirited men and women of the defeated country appear too few and too far,
And they rush to assume this is it, their end, and the end of it!

Followed by two immediate actions,
Repatriation by the winning side,
And reparation by the losing side while dealing with endless sanctions,
And behind them their lost spirits hide,

But as years pass by and time grows older,
The defeated side realises the losses it suffered,
The men it lost, and the women who fought in ways bolder,
And the living ones, the paying ones, look at their spirits battered,

And they hear echoes from the past,
Few calling a mother, few a father, many a brother, a sister and a lost lover,
And then the ship of agony and pain hoists its broad mast,
And the left one, the still and forever paying one, is forced to become an avenger,

Because he/she misses the person to whom these echoes belong,
He/she struggles to deal with the past that haunts him/her in the present,
And to deal with this belligerent self, he/she hums the firebird’s song,
And finally with hatred and lament he/she is pregnant,

And when the feeling is born,
The defeated spirit rises from the ashes,
And begins to sew together the feelings that lie scattered on the ground, mutilated and torn,
With these feelings of hatred and vengeance now his/her spirit gushes,

The silent ground that had been the graveyard of dreams and desires,
Suddenly turns into a war zone once again,
So those who say peace can be brokered are cynical liars,
Because one who is dead can never be brought back again,

And thus the battle between revenge and avenging deaths enters a new phase,
Where the defeated side now fearlessly marches forth,
Because it has nothing to lose now it has no more ghosts to chase,
And thus is born the one who loves romancing the sun, the killer moth,

And it stings all alike, and it flies freely everywhere,
Until both sides accept defeat,
Then they begin to dig graves to bury a hope here, a wish there, and someone’s desire somewhere,
And somewhere lies the lover who his/her beloved could not meet,

And then is born the curse of unfulfilled wishes, desires, hopes and life’s darling affairs,
Now both sides lie in ruin because there is no ground left to bury the dead,
And the sound of echoes keeps growing and the ground turns wet with tears,
It is then the spirit forsakes them all, because genuine valour does not reside in places where courage on death is fed,

And as time grows older there are no more bold men and women left,
Because it is a diabolic ground where only echoes from the past haunt all,
Where all are victims of a different kind of theft,
That of humanity’s actual fall!”
― Javid Ahmad Tak, They Loved in 2075!

“War and ceasefire

There was a war followed by a ceasefire,
Land covered in ash, dead men and women,
Beside the dead were unfulfilled dreams and many a desire,
This is how it is now and this is how it was then,

Because a country defeated in war,
Enters into the state of passive spirit,
To the victor, spirited men and women of the defeated country appear too few and too far,
So, they rush to assume this is it, the end of it!

To be followed by two immediate actions,
Repatriation by the winning side,
And reparation by the losing side while dealing with endless sanctions,
Behind which their broken spirits hide,

But as years pass by and time grows older,
The defeated side realises the losses it suffered,
The men it lost, and the women who fought in ways bolder,
And the living ones, the paying ones, look at their spirits battered,

And they hear echoes from the past,
Few calling a mother, few a father, many a brother, a sister and someone a lost lover,
And then the ship of agony and pain hoists its broad mast,
And the left one, the still and forever paying one, is forced to become an avenger,

Because he/she misses the person to whom these echoes belong,
He/she struggles to deal with the past that haunts him/her in the present,
And to deal with this belligerent self, he/she hums the firebird’s song,
And finally with hatred and lament he/she is pregnant,

Finally when the feeling is born,
The defeated spirit rises from the ashes,
And begins to sew together the feelings that lie scattered on the ground, mutilated and torn,
With these feelings of hatred and vengeance now his/her spirit gushes,

The silent ground that had been the graveyard of dreams and desires,
Suddenly turns into a war zone once again,
So, those who say peace can be brokered are cynical liars,
Because one who is dead can never be brought back again,

And thus the battle between revenge and avenging deaths enters a new phase,
Where the defeated side now fearlessly marches forth,
Because it has nothing to lose and it has no more ghosts to chase,
And thus is born the one who loves romancing the sun, the killer moth,

It stings all, and it flies freely everywhere,
Until both sides accept defeat,
Then they begin to dig graves to bury a hope here, a wish there, and someone’s desire somewhere,
And somewhere lies the lover who his/her beloved could not meet,

And then is born the curse of unfulfilled wishes, desires, hopes and life’s darling affairs,
Now both sides lie in ruin because there is no ground left to bury the dead,
And the sound of echoes keeps getting louder and the ground turns wet with tears,
It is then the spirit forsakes them all, because genuine valour does not reside in places where courage on death is fed,

And as time grows older there are no more bold men and women left,
Because it is a diabolic ground where only echoes from the past haunt all,
Where all are victims of a different kind of theft,
That of humanity’s innocence that actually was the cause of great fall!”
― Javid Ahmad Tak, They Loved in 2075!

“The bravest battle fought is the one that ends wars before they begin.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Can 100 people devoted to war be more effective than 1 million people devoted to peace? Of course it is possible, because 100 people who devote themselves to war mean morally rotten people, and the evil methods used by morally rotten people are much more effective than the well-intentioned and sometimes even childish methods of peace-loving people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Today, the war is not based on the strongest or territorial gains, but on the smartest and only on the economic level.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“We are at war and have been for thousands and thousands of years. You must arm yourselves with Knowledge and Truth, because we do battle with ignorance, deception and lies.”
― Gavin Nascimento