War Weariness Quotes

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

America has wearied of Middle East War.

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.

Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.

Americans do not like long wars with indecisive outcomes.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.