War & Conflict Sayings

244 sayings found from 244 authors

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.

— Garibaldi 1860
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I have been in many battles and I have been victorious in all of them. But now I am weary and I want to rest.

— Franz Kafka 1917
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

— George Orwell 1946
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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

— Ernest Hemingway 1952
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

— Jorge Luis Borges 1949
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

— Maya Angelou Unknown
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Coquetry, like a regular army, but with its more formidable implements reserved in the background, is in the front and always ready for action.

— Edgar Allan Poe 1841
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The world is a spiritual battleground.

— William Butler Yeats 1926
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

— Chinua Achebe late 20th century
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My mind is my weapon. My pen is my sword.

— Wole Soyinka Unknown
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Unknown
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The wounds received in battle are honorable, but those received by the tongue are incurable.

— Cervantes 1605
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The world is not a place of peace, but a battleground.

— H.G. Wells Early 20th Century
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The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend.

— William S. Burroughs 1980s
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You can't fight for your life and have a good time.

— Kurt Vonnegut 1969
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For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?

— John Milton 1667
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Argument is the worst enemy of truth.

— Jonathan Swift 1706
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I am a man of peace, and hate war.

— William Wordsworth 1821
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All my life I have been fighting to be a woman. I have been fighting to be an individual. I have been fighting to be myself.

— Zora Neale Hurston N/A
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I'm still fighting with the light, and I'm still not satisfied.

— Claude Monet 1888
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