War Quote by Malala Yousafzai

“We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.”

— Jake Wood

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

“As a hypothetical illustration, let us assume a conflict involving us in Afghanistan.”

— J.C. Wylie

“The Afghan sky, under which the most beautiful idylls on earth were woven, grew suddenly dark with armored predators; its azure limpidity was streaked…

— Yasmina Khadra

“because Afghanistan is no country to fight a war in – and an impossible one to hold if you win.”

— M.M. Kaye

“the USSR, far from having engineered the April 1978 communist seizure of power in Kabul, and plotting then to send in troops as part…

— Fred Halliday

“The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200…

— William Dalrymple

“the primary focus in Afghanistan was to “win the hearts and minds,” the Vaughns were enraged. The idea that the sensitivities and feelings of…

— Billy Vaughn

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

— John R. Allen

“In Afghanistan, not much is for certain other than an open sky and eventual death. In between the two is family.”

— Jenny Nordberg

Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to…

— Pervez Musharraf

“Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...”

— Khaled Hosseini