On the other side of the river and the shattered…

Every army in the history of the world has always had some deserters, usually much greater than we have today, because once again every…

— Bryan Hilferty

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow…

— Jean Giraudoux

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

— Henry David Thoreau

“[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the sticks on…

— Virginia Woolf

Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Of course vindictiveness is an ugly trait and, yes, I do mean to forgive all these nice deserters; I mean, eventually, to say, to…

— Leif Enger

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

— Paul Watson

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the…

— Heinrich Boll

In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein."…

— Henry David Thoreau

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and…

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

“[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given…

— Brandon Sanderson

Rebel souls deserters we've been called. Chose a gun and threw away the sun now these towns they all know our names. The death…

— Five Finger Death Punch

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

— Bill Ayers

“Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.”

— Milan Kundera

As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary…

— Spiro T. Agnew