Battle Quote by John Fowles

“The ground over which the bulk of the battles raged was only about eighty-five miles wide, a relatively modest battleground but a rather large…

— Joseph E. Persico

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

— Barack Obama

The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.

— Sivananda

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience…

— Haruki Murakami

“We took too many casualties in our struggle to be together”

— Tarryn Fisher - Thief

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were…

— Hernando Cortes

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the…

— Winston Churchill

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond…

— Iain Banks

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

— Paulo Coelho

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes…

— Darren Shan

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion,…

— Henry Van Dyke

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

— Anton Chekhov