It is open to a war resister to judge between the…

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

— Richard Eberhart

“Rachel left," he says, sighing. "Says she's never coming back." Galen nods. "She always says that. It's probably for the better tonight, though." They…

— Anna Banks

By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much…

— Thucydides

I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.

— Brett Kavanaugh

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

— Pierre Corneille

“Wars always kill more of the innocent than the combatants.”

— Craig Alanson

“The War is the enemy. It runs itself on the fears of the combatants. It is a machine into which men are put and…

— George R.R. Martin

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the…

— Anonymous

“Language is a powerful thing, and it changes the way we view ourselves, and other people, in delightful and horrifying ways. Anyone with any…

— Kameron Hurley

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.”

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

— Juha Vaatainen

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

— Alain Resnais