Patrick Ness Quotes

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand. That's when it's newsworthy. When the war ends, it's not newsworthy anymore; no one wants to think about it. Actually, the aftermath is the most important part. It's when people have to rebuild.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulations, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

War is not won by victory.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.