Anne Fortier Quotes

Old men make wars that young men may die.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Do not say that someone has won and someone has lost. These are unappropriate, blasphemous words. We have all been scorched by the deadly breath of fratricide.

Bloody Ground

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.