If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed…

— Mark Twain

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

— Bill Moyers

“We can speak of war as vehemently as some others do, but because we believe otherwise as Muslims, we prefer to speak of peace.”

— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

“The poets, when they speak of war, talk of the shield wall, they talk of the spears and arrows flying, of the blade beating…

— Bernard Cornwell

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

— Isabel Allende

If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery…

— Clara Barton

“Poem against War Bonfires burn brightly ”I see what you don’t see” Deathly pale rattles the sky. The children have grown old; Their voices…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really…

— Moby

You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

— Stephenie Meyer

“So I say this. Speak of them. Speak of those that died. Speak of all those who ever died--in all the world's history, in…

— Susan Fletcher

“The dead speak to those who listen. Be quieter than even them.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that…

— Hannah Arendt

“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”

— Robert Galbraith

“The certainty that someone will never come back," the narrator muses of the dead, "never speak again, never take another step…will never look at…

— Javier Marías

“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle of the…

— Connie Willis