War Quote by Bill D'oa

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the…

— Timothy Snyder

“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these…

— Émile Gaboriau

“If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.”

— Alex de Waal

“Every sound reason is on the side of law and order in their insistence that the eternity of joy be reserved for the hereafter,…

— Herbert Marcuse

“stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgement of the law is one of the most significant tributes…

— Ann Tusa

“We are outnumbered and outgunned and have every reason to despair. But it is exactly these odds that cause Fortune to smile upon those…

— S.G. Redling

“The best of men cannot defend their fate: the good die early, the bad die late.”

— Daniel Defoe

“Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the…

— Stephen Fry

“There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons…

— Christopher Hawke