David Means Quotes

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.

The social and political climate came from discussions about how we could find conflict in the wake of a 100-year-long war ending. But as we know in the real world, just because a war ends it doesn't mean that everything turns happy and peaceful. That provided us with some new kinds of conflict for us to explore in 'Korra.'

A critical part of our relationship with Laos involves addressing the legacy of war.

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

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.

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

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

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

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

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

War is not won by victory.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

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

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.